World Championships women’s 100m bronze medallist Kelly Ann Baptiste ended the year as this country’s highest ranked athlete on the latest World Rankings for 2011. Baptiste, who sped to bronze at the World Champs in Daegu, South Korea on August 29, is fifth in the women’s dash with a season’s best of 10.90 seconds. The 25-year-old set the time in finishing third at the Brussel Diamond League on September 9.
The time is the second best for the Plymouth sprint queen with only her national record of 10.84 quicker. On the rankings World Champion Carmelita Jeter of the USA (10.70),Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown (10.76), Marshavet Myers (USA) and Kerron Stewart (Jamaica) are ahead of the former Bethesda Government Primary student. At the Worlds Champs only Jeter and Campbell-Brown were able to get to the line ahead of her with Jeter grabbing the gold (10.90) and Campbell-Brown narrowly getting the runner up spot ahead of Baptiste (10.97 to 10.98). Stewart was sixth and Myers eighth.
Baptiste is also behind the top two in the number of sub-eleven clocking for 2011. The double national record holder run five times under 11 seconds (10.90-Sep 16, 10.91-July 8, 10.94-May 7 and 10.98-August 29) with Jeter and Campbell-Brown each posting seven such clockings. Four other local sprint lasses are also listed on the rankings: Semoy Hackett is at 32nd with 11.17 and Michelle Le-Ahye (46th-11.20), Ayanna Hutchinson (98th-11.36) and Kai Selvon (142nd -11.43). Baptiste teamed up with Hackett, Lee-Ahye and Selvon to set a new national women’s 4x100 record of 42.50 in the heats of the events at the World Championships. The time is the third quickest for the season with only World Championships gold medallist USA (41.56) and runners-up Jamaica (41.70) ahead. In the finals the quartet narrowly missed out a medal finishing fourth in 42.58. Double Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson is the next highest T&T athlete on the performance list. Thompson is fifth in the men’s 100m dash following his national record run of 9.85 seconds in taking a third straight national century crown at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on August 13.
Cleopatra Borel, and Rondel Sorillo are also in the top ten in their respective events with Keston Bledman, Jehue Gordon and Renny Quow in the top twenty. Thompson, Bledman were part of the national men’s 4x100 outfit (Marc Burns and Aaron Armstrong ) which clocked the third fastest time of the year of 37.91 in the heats in Daegu. The team finished sixth in the finals (39.01). Borel is ninth in the women’s shot put with her national outdoor performance of 19.42m in finishing fourth at the Paris Diamond League on July 8.
The reigning Commonwealth/Pan American Games silver medallist had a wonderful year qualifying for her first ever outdoor World Championships finals, throwing over the 19 metre barrier on four occasions and capturing the CAC Championships title in August. Sorillo lies at number 10 in the men’s 200m performance list after he blazed to 20.16 in taking the national title on August 14. The La Brea runner when on to finish seventh in the finals half lap event at the World Championships in South Korea. Bledman is at 12th in the men’s 100m he sped to 9.93 seconds in winning in Clearmont, Florida (USA) on June 4. Reigning World Junior champion is next at 13th in the men’s 400m hurdles with 48.66 which he establishing in winning the event in Berlin, Germany on September 11 while former World Junior champion Renny Quow is 14th in the men’s 400m, running 44.84 in the heats of the last August’s World Championships.
T&T ATHLETES ON THE IAAF WORLD PERFORMANCE LIST FOR 2011
100m
Women
Rank Name Performance Place Date
5 Kelly Ann Baptiste 10.90/+0.4 Brussels, Belg Sep 16
32 Semoy Hackett 11.17/-0.1 Athens, USA May 14
46 Michelle Lee Ahye 11.20/+1.0 Daegu, SKorea Aug 28
98 Ayanna Hutchinson 11.36/nwi Couva, T&T July 10
142 Kai Selvon 11.43/-0.1 PoS, T&T Aug 13
Men
6 Richard Thompson 9.85/+1.0 PoS, T&T Aug 13
12 Keston Bledman 9.93/+1.0 Florida, USA June 6
31 Aaron Armstrong 10.07/+1.0 PoS, T&T Aug 13
34 Marc Burns 10.09/+1.0 PoS, T&T Aug 13
41 Emmanuel Calender 10.12/+1.0 PoS, T&T Aug 13
42 Darrel Brown 10.13/+1.0 PoS, T&T Aug 13
62 Rondel Sorillo 10.17/+1.0 PoS, T&T Aug 13
200m
Women
44 Semoy Hackett 22.87/+1.5 Iowa,USA June 11
47 Kai Selvon 22.89/+0.3 Daegu, South Korea Sep 1
141 Reyare Thomas 23.37/+1.8 Kansas, USA May 12
Men
10 Rondel Sorillo 20.16/+1.6 PoS, T&T Aug 14
115 Emmanuel Callender 20.67/+1.1 Oregon, USA June 4
115 Lalonde Gordon 20.67/ 1.6 New York,USA July 9
175 Moriba Morain 20.80/+1.6 PoS, T&T Aug 14
210 Richard Thompson 20.85/-1.2 Stockholm, Sweden July 29
400m Hurdles
Women
31 Janiel Bellille 55.80 Texas, USA April 2
70 Josanne Lucas 56.86 Rehlingen, Germany June 13
136 Sparkle McKnight 57.88 Texas, USA April 23
Men
13 Jehue Gordon 48.66 Berlin, Germany Sep 11
60 Emmanuel Mayers 49.86 Guadalajara, Mexico Oct 26
100 hurdles
Women
59 Josanne Lucas 13.03/+0.1 Alabama, USA April 16
139 Aleesha Barber 13.29/+0.9 Mayaguez, P Rico July 17
110m Hurdles
Men
85 Mikel Thomas 13.63/-0.7 Tennessee, USA April 15
Triple Jump
Women
61 Ayanna Alexander 13.98/+0.8 PoS, T&T July 24
Men
104 Elton Walcott 16.43/+1.3 Florida, USA July 23
4X100
Women
3 National team 42.50 Daegu, South Korea Sep 4
Men
3 National team 39.91 Daegu, South Korea Sep 4
4X400
Women
24 National team 3:34:84 Mayaguez, P Rico July 17
Men
17 National team 3:02:65 Mayaguez, P Rico July 17
Shot Put
Women
9 Cleopatra Borel 19.42 Paris, France July 8
33 Annie Alexander 17.66 Iowa, USA June 11
119 Hilenn James 16.14 Florida, USA April 2
Discus
Women
61 Annie Alexander 58.58 Indiana, USA May 28
400m
Men
14 Renny Quow 44.84 Daegu, S Korea Aug 28
48 Lalonde Gordon 45.51 Rabat, Morocco June 5
48 Zwede Hewitt 45.51 Iowa, June 8
Javelin
Men
131 Kershorn Walcott 75.77 Guadalajara, Mexico Oct 28
By Clayton Clarke
Source: www.guardian.co.tt