Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Emmanuel Callender struck gold in the men's 100 metres dash at the Belem Grand Prix, in Brazil, on Sunday. The 2008 Olympic Games 4x100m silver medallist stopped the clock at 10.18 seconds.
Brazilians Bruno de Barros and Nilson Andre picked up the minor medals, clocking 10.27 and 10.37, respectively.
Callender's 10.18 run was his fastest to date in 2012, bettering the 10.22 he produced to win the Falcon Games century at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain on April 1.
Durell Busby earned double gold at the Horizon League Outdoor Championships, in Wisconsin, USA, on the weekend.
Busby clocked a wind-assisted 13.92 seconds to earn gold in the men's 110m hurdles. In the qualifying round, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student got to the line in 14.30 to advance to the final as the fastest qualifier. Busby also emerged victorious in the javelin, the T&T athlete hurling the spear 52.34 metres.
At the Duke Twilight meet, in North Carolina, Lalonde Gordon captured the men's 200m title in 21 seconds flat. Gordon also competed in the 100m dash. He clocked 10.72 to finish first in section two and fourth overall.
St Augustine's College sophomore, Jameel Walcott was third in section two and 11th overall in the men's 800m in one minute, 51.83 seconds.
Kiersten LaRoche seized silver in the women's heptathlon at the Atlantic 10 Conference Championships, in Massachusetts. The Temple University freshman accumulated 4,703 points in the seven-discipline event.
LaRoche was in front going into the final discipline, the 800m. The T&T athlete enjoyed a 26-point cushion on University of Rhode Island student Marissa Norman, of the United States. However, Norman finished sixth in the two-lap race in 2:26.04 to earn 743 points, while LaRoche was 13th in 2:40.23, managing just 570 points. Norman secured gold with 4,850 points, 147 more than LaRoche.
In addition to the heptathlon, LaRoche competed in the women's long jump and triple jump events. She bagged bronze in the long jump with a 5.90m leap and finished ninth in the triple jump with an 11.31m effort.
At the Oxy Invitational, in California, Magnolia Howell clocked 11.75 seconds to finish second in the women's 100m B race. In the 400m, Howell was seventh in 54.72.
Melissa De Leon got home in 2:06.11 to cop sixth spot in the women's 800m.
Ruebin Walters produced a 14.21 seconds run to secure silver in the boys' under-20 110m hurdles, at the Meeting de Saint Martin, in St Martin.
In the women's 100m hurdles preliminaries, Aleesha Barber finished fourth in heat two and seventh overall in a wind-aided 13.61 seconds. The top six advanced to the final.
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By Kwame Laurence