The Cleopa­tra Borel Foun­da­tion should take a bow af­ter host­ing a very en­ter­tain­ing and all-en­com­pass­ing Throws Meet yes­ter­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo.

The event start­ed on time and had a large cross-sec­tion of the throw­ing pop­u­la­tion with com­peti­tors vy­ing for ho­n­ours and ex­pe­ri­ence in the Un­der 13, 15, 17 and 20 age groups to­geth­er with men and women open.

The event al­so at­tract­ed the throw­ing Coach­es at the fa­cil­i­ty in­clud­ing Olympic Javelin Cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott, Coach­es Ker­ron Browne, Mus­trapha, Lester O'Souna and Joyce Walk­er-Thomas.

Borel was very hap­py with the first edi­tion of the Throws Meet say­ing, "I thought it was fab­u­lous. We saw a very high turn out of fe­males at the com­pe­ti­tion and that au­gurs well for the coun­try go­ing for­ward. We need to com­pete and Com­pe­ti­tions like this will on­ly im­prove our ath­letes.

She said, "We saw some of our Carif­ta based ath­letes were on show, we saw our young and bud­ding throw­ers and then there was a good turn out of those from Uni­ver­si­ties. In ad­di­tion to this, we saw many vet­er­ans on the field and this says a lot for the sport. Noth­ing im­proves you like com­pe­ti­tion and the more com­pe­ti­tion like these that we stage the bet­ter our Throw­ers will be­come."

Borel added, "We start­ed off think­ing on­ly about, the Shot Put, but af­ter care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion, we de­cid­ed that all the throws should be in and that is what we did. I know some of our women like Gwen­dolyn Smith who is prepar­ing to go to Poland to com­pete in here. Ayan­na Roach who has an ex­cel­lent chance to bring home a medal at the Carif­ta Games in Cay­man Is­land is al­so here."

In the Un­der 13 Girls Shot Put event Janeille Bai­ley was first with a throw of 5. 15 me­tres.

In the Girls Un­der 15 Cat­e­go­ry, Jani­ka 'Hulk' Jor­dan was first putting the 'iron ball' 7.90 me­tres.

Ro­ke­na El­der throw fur­thest in the Un­der 17 Girl's Shot Put event with her 9:78 throw. Gwen­dolyn Smith struck gold with her 13.66 me­tres heave. Shaw­na Downey was sec­ond with a putt of 11.26 me­tres.

In the Dis­cus event, Jade Greaves post­ed a win­ning throw of 21.44 to be ahead of Ja­da St Hillaire who reg­is­tered 19.51 me­tres dis­tance.

Downey was very good in the women's cat­e­go­ry as she post­ed a throw of 38.99 me­tres to edge Kieanne Black­man who threw 38.01. Chelsea Browne topped the Un­der 15 Girls with her throw of 16.80 me­tres.

In the Javelin event, Smith was again in win­ner's row with her throw of 34.43 me­tres. Downey had to set­tle for sec­ond with her heave of 22.06. How­ev­er, Jad St Hi­laire took the top prize in the Un­der 20 Girls event with her throw of 25.39 me­tres.

In the men's Shot Put sec­tion Gyasi Bois­son was first with a throw of 14.18 me­tres with Jaden James tak­ing top ho­n­ours in the Un­der 17 Boys cat­e­go­ry with his putt of 11.78.

In the Dis­cus event, Keon Fran­cis sent the disc 41.23 me­tres to win the men's cat­e­go­ry, while Joel An­drews took the un­der-20 ti­tle with his 36.65 me­tres throw. Jaden James was sec­ond with 34.96 me­tres.