Clay­ton Clarke

Cleopa­tra Borel and Kel­ly Ann Bap­tiste will be look­ing to im­prove on their third plac­ing in their last Di­a­mond League out­ings when they com­pete in the Sam­sung Di­a­mond League Weltk­lasse Meet in Zurich, Switzer­land to­day. Borel was third in the women's shot put event in Birm­ing­ham on Sun­day with a dis­tance of 18.36. The na­tion­al record hold­er has been hav­ing a rel­a­tive­ly suc­cess­ful sea­son with top six fin­ish­es in all her com­pe­ti­tion for the year. Her best per­for­mance was sec­ond at the Ja­maican In­vi­ta­tion­al (18.69) and at the Gyu­lai Ist­van Memo­r­i­al in Hun­gary (18.58). Borel will come up against the in­form Olympic cham­pi­on Va­leri Adams who is un­beat­en all sea­son.

Bap­tiste will be look­ing to back up her third place fin­ish in the women's 100m event in Lau­sanne, Switzer­land on Au­gust 23. The 2011 World Cham­pi­onships bronze medal­list will again face a stel­lar field head­ed by Olympic sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce of Ja­maica and World Cham­pi­on Carmeli­ta Jeter (USA). Fras­er-Pryce re­tained her Olympic ti­tle in Lon­don in 10.75 ahead of Jeter (10.78) but the Amer­i­can has got­ten the bet­ter of her ri­val in their last two match ups in Lau­sanne and Birm­ing­ham. Jeter's com­pa­tri­ot, Lon­don 200m cham­pi­on Allyson Fe­lix and Jene­ba Taramoh and for­mer Olympic and World run­ner up Ker­ron Stew­art al­so of Ja­maica are al­so in the line up.

Olympic sixth place fin­ish­er Je­hue Gor­don is among the starters in the men' 400m hur­dles event. The 2010 World Ju­nior cham­pi­on will face six of the men he ran against in the Olympics fi­nals in Lon­don in­clud­ing gold, sil­ver and bronze medal­lists Fe­lix Sanchez (Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic) Michael Tins­ley (USA) and Javier Cul­son (Puer­to Ri­co). Gor­don will be aim­ing at his na­tion­al record of 47.96 which he set in the Olympics semi­fi­nals. The UWI stu­dent will be seek­ing to con­tin­ue his im­pres­sive per­for­mances for the yearsin which he notched three run­ner up spots in Kingston, Puer­to Ri­co and Nor­way.