T&T’s men’s 4x400m relay team surpassed the qualifying time for this year’s World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia at the Penn Relays in Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The event will be held from August 10 to 18.
The quartet of Renny Quow, Jereem Richards, Machel Cedenio and Lalonde Gordon clocked 3:02.81 in finishing fifth, getting past the qualifying time of 3:05.00.
Quow ran the lead off leg and handed over the baton in second spot with a split of 45.8 behind the victorious US Red team. Teenagers Richards (46.4) and Cedenio (45.7) sped to to their best ever splits but the national squad slipped out of the top three. Double Olympic bronze medallist Gordon ran strongly in the first 200m of the last leg but could only finish fifth despite a 44.9 split time. Jamaica was second (3:0115), with Bahamas( 3:02.23 (and USA Blue (3:02.64) all finished ahead of the London Olympic bronze medallists.
The Caribbean all-star team with Olympic and World Champion Kirani James (Grenada) and two-time Olympic gold medallist Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic was sixth.
The national women’s 4x100m of quarter miler Sparkle Mc Knight and sprinters Michelle Lee-Ahye, Reyare Thomas and Nandelle Cameron was eighth with 44.19 behind winners Jamaica (42.42) and the USA Blue (42.65) and Red (42.66) teams.
The men’s 4x400m join McKnight (women’s 400m-52.17), Lendore (men’s 400m-45.00), Mikel Thomas (men’s 110m hurdles-13.39), Jehue Gordon (men’s 400m hurdles-49.50) and Aleesha Barber (women’s 10m hurdles-13.10) who have all attained the qualifying standards for the World Champs.
Wayne Davis 11(Texas A&M) captured the College men’s 110m hurdles in 13.67 (-0.3) to improve on his fourth place finish in 2012. Deon Lendore anchored Texas A&M to victory in the College men’s 4x400m in 3:02.52. Lendore completed the last lap in 45.1 seconds. Jamol James and his Tennesse teammates copped bronze in the 4x100m in 40.73. Gordon helped Zenith Velocity to victory in the Olympic men’s 4x100m (39.72) running he second leg.