Clydeen Mc Don­ald

T&T's good run at the 12th IAAF World Cham­pi­onships in Ath­let­ics in Berlin, Ger­many, con­tin­ued yes­ter­day with Ren­ny Quow claim­ing bronze in the men's 400 me­tres. Af­ter pow­er­ing in­to the fi­nal with a new per­son­al best time of 44.53 sec­onds, Quow, post­ed a 45.02 to claim this coun­try's sec­ond medal in two days. "I worked re­al­ly hard this sea­son," said the 23-year-old na­tion­al cham­pi­on. "It was not easy to do all the train­ing and stay in­jury free, but I did it be­cause I re­al­ly want­ed this medal. I want­ed it more than I ever want­ed any­thing be­fore."

At the 2008 Olympics in Bei­jing, Chi­na, Quow had qual­i­fied for the fi­nal with his pre­vi­ous per­son­al best of 44.83 but failed to win a medal in the event. He stat­ed that this was one of the ma­jor mo­ti­vat­ing fac­tors ahead of yes­ter­day's race. "When I made it in­to the fi­nal on Thurs­day I asked my­self if I would be sat­is­fied with that. I didn't want to be known as the guy who just makes fi­nals. I felt that it was time for me to get a medal. This has been a good sea­son and that was the per­fect way to end it," Quow said. Olympic gold medal­list LaShawn Mer­ritt of the USA clocked the fastest time in the world this year (44.06) to win the event, while two-time de­fend­ing world cham­pi­on Je­re­my Wariner, al­so of the USA, was third in 44.60.

Man­ag­er Dex­ter Voisin al­so shared his opin­ion on Quow's achieve­ment. "The mem­bers of the team are very hap­py with what Ren­ny achieved," said an elat­ed Voisin. "It was just yes­ter­day we had a team meet­ing talk­ing about our per­for­mances at the cham­pi­onships. At that meet­ing I told the team that we need­ed to build on the good per­for­mances so far and get medals," he said. This was on­ly the sec­ond time in the his­to­ry of the World Cham­pi­onships–the last was at the in­au­gur­al edi­tion in 1983–that a sub 45 wasn't re­quired to take the bronze.

On Thurs­day Josanne Lu­cas cre­at­ed his­to­ry when she claimed the bronze medal in the women's 400-me­tre hur­dles. Lu­cas, run­ning out of lane three, post­ed a new na­tion­al record of 53.20 and be­came the first woman from T&T to win a medal at the Cham­pi­onships. The gold medal in the event went to Olympic cham­pi­on Melaine Walk­er of Ja­maica with the sec­ond-fastest time in his­to­ry, 52.42. Lashin­da De­mus of the USA took the sil­ver in 52.96.

How they fin­ished

Name Coun­try Time

1 LaShawn Mer­ritt USA 44.06

2 Je­re­my Wariner USA 44.60

3 Ren­ny Quow T&T 45.02

4 Tabarie Hen­ry ISV 45.42

5 Chris Brown BAH 45.47

6 David Gillick IRL 45.53

7 Michael Bing­ham GBR 45.56

8 Leslie Djhone FRA 45.90