T&T's marathon run­ner Tonya Nero will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in the 32nd edi­tion of the ABN AM­RO Marathon Rot­ter­dam in the Nether­lands to­day. The marathon is one of the biggest one-day sport­ing events in the Nether­lands with more than 22,000 par­tic­i­pants at the start and will be con­test­ed among the world's ab­solute top ath­letes. Nero, who is in Rot­ter­dam to com­pete in the marathon, is hop­ing to low­er her dis­tance time to two hours and 43 min­utes in her quest to rep­re­sent T&T at the 2012 Lon­don Olympics.

Nero is the na­tion­al record hold­er in the women's half marathon at 1:15.42, and is the fastest ever fe­male from T&T in the out­door 5,000 me­tres with a 16min 19.17 sec­onds run. She is al­so the T&T record hold­er in the out­door 10,000m and in­door 3,000m and 5,000m events. In De­cem­ber at the White Rock Marathon in Dal­las she ran a time of 3:05.20 short of the Olympics "B" stan­dard. Nero is in Rot­ter­dam with for­mer marathon run­ner Paul Voisin who is acts­ing as coach/man­ag­er at this event.