An­drew Gioan­net­ti

T&T's Ke­ston Bled­man claimed bronze yes­ter­day in a Caribbean-dom­i­nat­ed 100m fi­nal at the IAAF Di­a­mond League, in New York, USA, fin­ish­ing in 10.23 sec­onds.Ja­maican pair Nes­ta Carter and Yohan Blake took gold and sil­ver, re­spec­tive­ly, but were both un­able to duck un­der the ten-sec­ond mark.Carter won in 10.09, while Blake, the Di­a­mond League 100m record hold­er (9.69) fin­ished in 10.21 sec­onds.An­oth­er Ja­maican, Ke­mar Bai­ley-Cole placed eighth in 10.33.

Al­so claim­ing bronze for T&T yes­ter­day was mul­ti­ple CAC gold medal­ist and Olympic shot put throw­er Cleopa­tra Borel, who threw an im­pres­sive 19.04m.The Ma­yaro-born ath­lete made her best ef­fort on the third at­tempt af­ter throw­ing 18.08m on the first and fault­ing on the sec­ond. She then threw 18.21m on her fourth at­tempt. Va­lerie Adams of New Zealand won the event in 19.52m, while Michelle Carter of the USA was edged out in sec­ond with her 19.51m at­tempt.

Al­so in ac­tion for T&T were World Cham­pi­on Je­hue Gor­don and Olympic bronze medal­ist Lalonde Gor­don, both of whom were far from their best.Gor­don (Je­hue) placed sev­enth in the 400m hur­dles clock­ing 49.81, on­ly ahead of Ja­maica's Leford Green, who placed eighth in 50.87. The race was won by Javier Cul­son of Puer­to Ri­co, who ran a world-lead­ing 48.03. USA's Michael Tins­ley fin­ished sec­ond in a sea­son-best 48.56, while Cor­nel Fred­er­icks of South Africa took third in 48.58- al­so a sea­son best.

Mean­while, Gor­don (Lalonde) placed eighth and last in his event, the men's 400m sprint clock­ing 45.68 sec­onds.

USA's Lashawn Mer­ritt took his Di­a­mond League 400m tal­ly to 12 points af­ter win­ning the race in a blis­ter­ing 44.19 sec­onds for a meet record. South Africa's Wayde Van Niek­erk (44.38) placed sec­ond for a na­tion­al record, while Ba­hami­an Chris Brown ran a sea­son-best 44.61 sec­onds for third place.