Gwen­dolyn Smith land­ed sil­ver for T&T at the World Mas­ters (Over 35) In­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships tak­ing place at the Alachua Coun­ty Sports Cen­tre in Gainesville, Flori­da USA on March9.

Smith se­cured the run­ner-up spot in the women's 60-64 shot put fi­nals with a 12.64 me­tres throw on Fri­day. Her medal-win­ning throw was achieved in the sixth and fi­nal round of the com­pe­ti­tion af­ter she opened with 11.79m and im­proved to 12.03m in her sec­ond ef­fort.

The tal­ent­ed throw­er went fur­ther with her re­main­ing throws (12.24m and 12.44m) be­fore sum­mon­ing her best ef­fort in her last throw (12.64m). How­ev­er, her top mark was not suf­fi­cient to catch Ger­many's Jan Muller Schidmt who won with 12.77m. Amer­i­can Shawn Law­son copped bronze (12.17). An­oth­er T&T com­peti­tor, Noe­lyn To­by-Davis, end­ed in 14th with 8.16m.

Smith won gold in the women's 60-64 javelin on Mon­day (36.87m) to se­cure an­oth­er World Mas­ters In­door ti­tle fol­low­ing her suc­cess in 2010 and 2012. She was go­ing for her sec­ond gold in Flori­da on Wednes­day in the women's 60-64 weight throw but fin­ished 10th (13.10) in an event she rarely com­petes in.

Smith, the vice pres­i­dent of the T&T As­so­ci­a­tion of Mas­ters Ath­let­ics will vie for her third medal in the women's 60-64 dis­cus fi­nal set for to­day (Sun­day), the fi­nal day of the Cham­pi­onships. To­by-Davis will al­so be among the starters.

Smith is the lone lo­cal ath­lete to mount the medal ros­trum with her gold and sil­ver medal ef­forts.

Geral­dine George was 12th in the women's 50-54 weight throw fi­nal on Wednes­day with a dis­tance of 11.06m. Ray­mond Smith missed out on a lane in the men's 65-69 200m fi­nal af­ter he clocked 28.89 sec­onds to cross the line third in heat three in the semi­fi­nal round on Wednes­day. How­ev­er, his clock­ing was the 10th fastest. The top eight ad­vanced to the fi­nal.

Ray­mond won his pre­lim­i­nary round race on Tues­day, stop­ping the clock in 28.49 sec­onds in win­ning the first heat.

T&T sits at 32nd on the medal ta­ble with two medals - one gold and one sil­ver (1, 1, 0).

Hosts USA sit on top with 397 (133, 138, 126) ahead of Great Britain with 71 (32, 19, 20) and Ger­many with 53 (20, 18, 15).

To­day's T&T Ath­letes Sched­ule

Dis­cus - Women's 60-64 fi­nal - Gwen­dolyn Smith (TTO)/Noe­lyn To­by-Davis (TTO)

Re­sults

Sat­ur­day

Dis­cus

Women's 50-54 fi­nals

1 Bet­ti­na Schardt (Ger­many) 39.64

2 An­drea Di­ener (Cana­da) 36.85

3 Hanel­ly Vil­lal­ba Lei­va (Venezuela) 35.24

6 Geral­dine George (TT) 34.27 (F, 34.19, 32.22, 33.59, 34.27, 33.27)

Fri­day

Shot put

Women's 60-64 fi­nals

1 Jana Muller Schmidt (Ger­many)12.77

2 Gwen­dolyn Smith (TTO) 12.64 (11.79, 12.03, F, 12.24, 12.44, 12.64)

3 Shawn Law­son (USA) 12.17

14 Noe­lyn To­by-Davis (TTO) 8.16 (8.01, F, 8.16)

Wednes­day

Weight Throw fi­nals

Women's 60-64

1 Clau­dine Ca­caut (France) 15.97

2 Don­na Beard (USA) 15.87

3 Janet Smith (Great Britain) 15.58

10 Gwen­dolyn Smith (TTO) 13.10

200m

Men's 65-69 Semi­fi­nals: 10 Ray­mond Smith (TTO) 28.89

Weigth throw

Women's 50-54 fi­nal

1 An­gela Herzn­er (USA)16.00

2 Na­tal­lia Ra­diono­va ( Ukraine) 15.90

3 An­drea Di­ener (Cana­da) 15.20

12 Geral­dine George (TTO) 11.06 (10.65, 10.56, 11.06)

60m semi­fi­nals

Men's 65-69: 9 Ray­mond Smith (TTO) 8.45

Men's 50-54: Did not start Philbert Ryce (TTO)

Mon­day

Women's Javelin 60-64 fi­nal

1 Gwen­dolyn Smith (TTO) 36.87 (35.18, f, 36.84, 36.09, 36.87, 36.75)

2 An­gela Muller (Ger­many) 29.68

3 Maria Is­abel Chavar­ria Zum­ba­do (Cos­ta Ri­ca) 25.47

4 Ju­lia Haynes (USA) 25.40

5 Emile Class (USA) 23.53

6 Janean Shan­non (USA) 22.95

7 Dhar­ma Paris (Puer­to Ri­co) 22.44

8 Jill Yeo­mans (USA) 2. 2.42

Men 60m Pre­lim­i­nar­ies

Men's 50-54: 9 Philbert Ryce (TTO) 7.60

Men's 65-69: 8 Ray­mond Smith (TTO) 8.41