Source: www.guardian.co.tt
Double Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson copped bronze in the men’s 100m finals at the Fanny Blankers-Keon Games in Hengelo, Netherlands yesterday. Kim Collins of St Kitts/Nevis clocked 10.05 seconds to win the event, edging out home favourite Churandy Martina. Emmanuel Callander was seventh (10.29). Thompson advanced to the finals after winning heat two in the preliminaries in 10.20 ahead of Martina (10.23) and Callender (10.25).
Another T&T athlete Aaron Armstrong was fifth in 10:40 and did not advance to the finals. National women’s shot put record holder Cleopatra Borel-Brown finished second in the Dakar Challenge, in Senegal on Saturday.
Borel Brown threw 18.28 metres to finish behind Cuba’s Misleydis Gonzalez who took the gold with 18.36m. Josephine Terklecki (Germany) was third with 17.56. Jarrid Solomon was fourth in the men’s 400m running 46.43. Ahead of Solomon was Rabah Yousif (Sudan) 45.64, Jordan Boase (USA) 45.65 and William Collaza (Cuba) 45.89.