Clay­ton Clarke

Dou­ble Olympic bronze medal­list Lalonde Gor­don bagged sil­ver in the men's 400 me­tres at the British Ath­let­ics Grand Prix at the Na­tion­al In­door Are­na in Birm­ing­ham, Eng­land, yes­ter­day.

Gor­don crossed the line in a time of 46.73 sec­onds in his first 400m race for the year. Beat­ing him were Briton's Nigel Levine, who was vic­to­ri­ous in 46.34 with an­oth­er British run­ner Richard Stra­chan in third (46.78).

Rabah Yousif of Su­dan (46.94), Amer­i­can Calvin Smith (47.11) and Olympic 400m sil­ver medal­list Luguelin San­tos of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic (47.14), filled the re­main­ing spots, re­spec­tive­ly.

The 24-year-old quar­ter­mil­er missed his per­son­al best of 46.43 set last year and is ex­pect­ed to race next in XL Galan Meet in Stock­holm, Swe­den, on Thurs­day.Natasha Hast­ings of the USA se­cured the women's 400m in world lead­ing time of 50.88 ahead of the British duo of Per­ri Shakes Dray­ton (51.37) and Eilidh Child (51.50).

Murielle Ahoure (Ivory Coast) cap­tured the high­ly-an­tic­i­pat­ed women's 60m fi­nals. The dou­ble Olympic fi­nal­ist sped to the line in a African record and world lead­ing time of 6.99, to dis­miss the favourites Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce of Ja­maica and Carmeli­ta Jeter (US).

Fras­er-Pryce, the two-time Olympic 100m cham­pi­on, was beat­en in­to sec­ond in 7.09 in her first in­door race ever edg­ing Amer­i­can Bar­bara Pierre for the sil­ver as both record­ed the same time. Jeter had to set­tle for fourth in 7.18.

Michael Rodgers took the men's 60m dash. The Amer­i­can raced to 6.53 to de­ny Caribbean sprint­ers Nes­ta Carter of Ja­maica (6.56), An­toine Adams (6.60) and vet­er­an Kim Collins (6.61) both of St Kitts/Nevis.

Brit­ian's dou­ble Olympic hero Mo Farah land­ed the men's 3,000m in 7:42.00 while An­guil­lan-born Shara Proc­tor took the women's long jump for Great Britain with a last round ef­fort of 6.78m.

In US Col­le­giate ac­tion, De­an­dra Daniel and Carisa Lea­cock struck gold. Daniel won the women's high jump Mid East­ern Ath­let­ic Con­fer­ence Cham­pi­onships ti­tle in Mary­land. The Cop­pin state fresh­man leaped to a per­son­al in­door best dis­tance of 1.73m. Lea­cock (Iowa) took the women's long jump crown at the Iowa In­vi­ta­tion­al in Iowa on Fri­day with a dis­tance of 5.77m.