Source: www.guardian.co.tt
Jehue Gordon was named both Senior and Junior Male Athlete of the Year at the National Amateur Athletic Association’s (NAAA) awards ceremony at Crown Plaza on Saturday. Cleopatra Borel-Brown who had her best year ever, was the senior Female Athlete of the Year while Kais Selvon took the junior prize.
Nineteen-year-old Gordon won this country’s sixth world junior gold medal when he took the 400m hurdles in IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada in July and set new records in the 110 metres and 400m hurdles at the Carifta Games. He also clocked the fifth fastest junior time ever of 48.47 seconds in Ponce, Puerto in May 8.
Shot putter Borel Brown had throws over 19 metres three times during the year, each time with a new national record, eventually stopping at 19.30 metres. The 31-year-old became this country’s most successful female athlete at the Commonwealth Games where she copped silver in her pet event with 19.03 metres to add to the bronze she won in Melbourne Australia in 2006.
List of Awardees
– Senior Female Athlete - Cleopatra Borel Brown
– Senior Male Athlete - Jehue Gordon
– Junior Female Athlete - Kais Selvon (4th – women’s 200 at World Junior Champs)
– Junior Male - JehueGordon
Outstanding performances
– Kelly Ann Baptiste-(10.84 second -3rd best time for the year)
– Jehue Gordon-(48.47 seconds-world leading junior and fifth fastest junior performance/13.41-national junior record)
(Jamol James, Sabian Cox, Moriba Morain, Kevin Haynes, Shermund Allsop-World Junior -4x100 team )-39.72 secs.-3rd World Junior Champs)
(Rondel Sorillo, Mark Burns, Emmanuel Callender, Keston Bledman-CAC 4x100 team)-38.24 sec (games record)-1st CAC Games
Rhonda Watkins-6.67m (CAC Games women’s long jump record)
Cleopatra Borel-Brown-19.30 metres (National women’s outdoor shot put record)
Hezekeil Romeo (17.46-National/CAC Junior Champs under 17 boy under 17 record).
Kenejah Williams- (14 year old. Medalled at Carifta Games)
Tonya Nero-(33 min 32 seconds-National women’s 10,000 metres record)
PilarMc Shine- (4 min 14.23 seconds-National women’s 1500m record)
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