Cleopa­tra Borel be­gan her 2013 cam­paign tak­ing the sec­ond spot in the women's shot put at the Shot in the City in­door event at the Cloud in Auck­land, New Zealand on Sat­ur­day.

The na­tion­al in­door and out­door record hold­er was run­ner up with a dis­tance of 17.13 be­hind home-favourite Valar­ie Adams who won with an New Zealand in­door record of 20.75. An­oth­er New Zealan­der Te Ri­na Keenan was third (15.95).

Adams is the 2008/2012 Olympic and 2009/2011 world cham­pi­on.

Borel's dis­tance was just 7 cm short of the World Cham­pi­onships 17.20 B stan­dard.

Speak­ing af­ter the meet, she said though she was not to hap­py with her dis­tance she is con­tin­u­ing to pre­pare for this year's World Cham­pi­onships in Moscow, Rus­sia from Au­gust 10 to 18.

"To­day's meet has me feel­ing ex­cit­ed to see how things will go as I con­tin­ue to work on my tech­nique and phys­i­cal per­pe­tra­tion for World Cham­pi­onships. I know my dis­tance was not out­stand­ing, but I'm hap­py to have got­ten over 17m, and I know I will build from this point," said Borel.

The two time Com­mon­wealth and Pan Amer­i­can Games medal­list will be aim­ing to qual­i­fy for her fifth World Cham­pi­onship team. Borel will next com­pete in Syd­ney Track Clas­sic in Aus­tralia on Sat­ur­day.

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