Dou­ble Olympic bronze medal­list Lalonde Gor­don was sec­ond in his first 400m race for 2013 when he clocked 46.73 at the British Ath­let­ics Grand Prix at the Na­tion­al In­door Are­na in Birm­ing­ham, Eng­land on Sat­ur­day.

The lanky quar­ter mil­er was aim­ing to im­prove on his one year old per­son­al best of 46.43 but was 0.3 sec­onds off. Gor­don said he felt he did not achieve his goal as he stum­bled at the start of the race."It was a slow open­er. I had a prob­lem at the be­gin­ning of the race. I stum­bled a few times but I am still sur­prised I ran that time be­cause al­most for the whole race I was in the back. I made my move at the last 150m."

With his 46.73, Gor­don is ranked 20th on the World In­door 400m stand­ings. His fel­low Olympic 4x400m bronze medal team mate De­on Lendore is at num­ber one with 45.91. Team mates Jar­rin Solomon is at 6th (46.32) and Ade Al­leyne-Forte 30th (46.88).

Gor­don is hap­py with the per­for­mances of his com­pa­tri­ots and is hop­ing all will run well in the out­door sea­son."That's good to see the guys run­ning fast times in­doors. When (the) out­door (sea­son) comes they all should be run­ning 45 low or sub 45. I have a good feel­ing we would medal at Moscow."

The 24-year-old was speak­ing from Stock­holm, Swe­den where he is sched­uled to run in his sec­ond and fi­nal 400m for he 2013 in­door sea­son at the XL Galan Meet on Thurs­day.

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