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ATLANTA, USA: Trinidadians Jacey Harper, Melissa DeLeon and Cleopatra Borel-Brown bagged titles at the two-day Georgia Tech Invitational hosted at the George C. Griffin Track in Atlanta, Georgia last weekend (May 13-14).
Harper a sprint double winner at the Clemson Orange & Purple Classic in South Carolina a week ago, won the men's 200m in 20.70 after finishing third in heat of the 100m in a season best 10.33. He clocked the fourth fastest time behind Florida's Walter Dix (10.12), Jason Smoots (10.13) and Greg Bolden (10.32). Harper, Smoots and Dix did not show for the final which was won by Bolden in 10.30.
Kimberly Walker of Trinidad placed fifth in the women's race in 11.76. The race was won by Tremedia Brice (USA) in 11.34. Tameka Clarke (11.58) and Bahamas' Wanda Hutson (11.59) also compete in the heats but were not present for the finals.
Running in heat two and seeing American Milton Campbell and China's Yang Yaozu breaking 21-sec, Harper raced home to win his heat over Louis Harris who finished second in 20.94. Campbell won heat one in 20.85 but placed second overall while Yaozu's 20.88 in the same heat saw him claiming third spot.
Moya Thompson of Jamaica clocked a season best 51.51 to place second behind American Julian Clay at 51.45 in the women's 400m. Ricardo Chamber (Jam) reset his school's 24-year old mark of 44.99 to 44.87 in winning the men's race. Trinidad's Ato Modibo (45.02) and Jamaica's Lanceford Spence (45.47) recorded season bests in finishing behind Chambers.
DeLeon breaks national record
Melissa DeLeon finished strongly in the home stretch to win her heat of the women’s 800m. DeLeon's time of 2:02.27 was a new Trinidad and Tobago mark and a personal best for the 24-year old. Barbados' Sheena Gooding clocked 2:05.11 in heat one to finish fifth in the heat and sixth overall.
Haiti’s Moise Joseph won his heat of the men’s 800m in 1:49.64 but was fifth overall.
American Sandra Glover got the better of 1996 Olympic finallist Debbie Parris of Jamaica in the women’s 400m hurdles. Glover came home at 54.01 while Parris was second in 55.74 American veteran Kim Batten finished third in 56.39.
Cleopatra Borel-Brown, who has a season best 18.44m, looked good in winning the women’s shot put with a toss of 17.88m. Liz Wanless of USA took second with a 17.53m throw. Jamaica Zara Northover had a throw of 15.20m which placed her fifth on the list.
After splitting with Florida’s program to take up a professional contract, Trinidad’s sportswoman Candice Scott won the silver medal in the hammer throw at 69.54m. Erin Gilreath won the event with a 71.14m throw. Kim Barrett (Jam) had a poor day by her standard inside the ring placing 12th with 50.76m.
Record breaking moments….
St. Lucia’s Lavern Spencer and Bermuda’s Zindzi Swan broke national records in the women’s high jump.
Spencer, competing for Albany State took second in the event with a leap of 1.92m. Swan a student at Florida Memorial was fourth in 1.80 as event favourite Chaunte Howard lived up to the expectations and publicity with a winning clearance of 1.95m.
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