Clay­ton Clarke

De­on Lendore and Mikel Thomas are T&T's high­est ranked ath­letes in the lat­est IAAF World Out­door rank­ings. Both are at num­ber four in their events. Lendore jumped in­to the top five in the men's 400m fol­low­ing his 45.56 sec­onds clock­ing at the UM Hur­ri­cane Alum­ni In­vite in Flori­da, USA on Sat­ur­day. The Queen's Roy­al Col­lege grad­u­ate dipped un­der the Olympic B stan­dard of 45.90 sec. Lendore al­so im­proved his per­son­al best of 46.20 sec­onds and his pre­vi­ous rank­ing of 23rd. Jar­rin Solomon is at 22nd af­ter he sped to vic­to­ry at the Don Kir­by Clas­sic in 45.92 sec­onds on April 7. Thomas re­mains at 4th in the men's 110m hur­dles stand­ings with his Olympic qual­i­fy­ing time of 13.48 sec.

Ke­ston Bled­man and Janeil Bellille are the next high­est rat­ed lo­cal ath­letes at fifth. Bled­man blazed in­to to the top ten of the men's 100 per­for­mance list with his Olympic qual­i­fy­ing time of 10.12 sec (a stan­dard-10.18) in fin­ish­ing sec­ond at the UM Hur­ri­cane Alum­ni Meet on Sat­ur­day. Bellille is fifth quick­est in the world in the women's 400m hur­dles with her 55.91 vic­to­ri­ous run at the Texas Re­lays on March 31. At the last rank­ings the 2008 dou­ble Carif­ta cham­pi­on was fourth. Em­manuel May­ers al­so dropped one place in the men's one-lap hur­dles list to 12th with 50.32 run on April 6. Nine­teen-year-old Keshorn Wal­cott is at 19th in the men's javelin rank­ings fol­low­ing his 77.59 gold medal per­for­mance in tak­ing his third straight boys un­der 20 Javelin ti­tle at this year's Carif­ta Games in Bermu­da on April 9. Wal­cott's ef­fort is a new na­tion­al and CAC Ju­nior record.

T&T IAAF World out­door rank­ings

Men

100

1 Yohan Blake Jam 9.90 +1.6 UTECH Clas­sic Kingston, Ja­maica

5 Ke­ston Bled­man 10.12 +0.1 UM Hur­ri­cane Alum­ni Flori­da,

16 Em­manuel Callan­der 0.0 Fal­cons Games, POS, Trinidad

200

1 Wal­lace Spear­mon USA 19.95 +1.8 Texas, USA

45 Mori­ba Morain 20.85 0.0 Fal­cons Games

400

1 Man­teo Mitchell USA 45.25 Al­aba­ma, USA

4 De­on Lendore 45.56 UM Hur­ri­cane Alum­ni Flori­da, USA

22 Jar­rin Solomon 45.92 Don Kir­by, New Mex­i­co, USA

110mH

1 David Oliv­er USA 13.30 -3.2 Flori­da, USA

4 Mikel Thomas 13.48 +1.9 Texas Re­lays Texas, USA

31 Je­hue Gor­don 13.81 nwi Fal­con Games POS, Trinidad

400mH

1 Ber­shawn Jack­son 48.49, Flori­da, USA

12 Em­manuel May­ers 50.32 Louisiana, USA

Javelin

1 Sergey Marakov 83.39 Adler Rus­sia

19 Keshorn Wal­cott 77.59 Carif­ta Games De­von­shire Bermu­da

Women

100

1 Oc­tavi­ous Free­man USA 11.10 +1.2 Flori­da, USA

25 Se­moy Hack­ett 11.39 -1.5 Tiger Clas­sic Louisiana, USA

400mH

1 T'ier­ra Browne USA 54.88 Flori­da, USA

5 Janeil Bellille 55.91 Texas Re­lays Texas, USA

21 Sparkle MC Knight 57.42 Texas Re­lays Texas, USA

Shot Put

1 Valar­ie Adams New Zealand 20.67 Syd­ney Aus­tralia

26 An­nie Alexan­der 17.20 Dou­ble Dual Meet Cal­i­for­nia, USA.