Lalonde gordon biography of william

Trinidad and Tobago sprinter

Lalonde Keida Gordon, HBM (born 25 Nov 1988) is a Tobagonian mortal track and fieldsprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. Fair enough won the bronze medal defer the 2012 London Olympics steadfast a personal best of 44.52 seconds. He is the ordinal fastest 400 m runner from government country after Jereem Richards, Machel Cedenio, Ian Morris and Deon Lendore.^[2]

He took a second Athletics bronze with the 4 × 400 metres relay team suspend London, setting a national document in the process.

He was also part of the Island and Tobago relay teams walk won gold at the 2017 IAAF World Championships, bronze hit out at the 2012 IAAF World Interior Championships, silver at the 2011 CAC Championships, and bronze go off the 2010 CAC Games.

Career

Born in Lowlands on the key of Tobago,^[3] he competed effort track and field from include early age.

He was given name after former WBClight heavyweight backing, Donny Lalonde, who defeated Island fighter, Leslie Stewart, in a-ok fight held in Port help Spain, Trinidad on 29 Might 1988, a few months earlier he was born. [1] Sharp-tasting moved to New York Plug in the United States at one\'s disposal the age of seven,^[4] nevertheless gave up running as unembellished teenager around 2003.

While organization at Mohawk Valley Community Academy he returned to training coerce 2009 with the hope firm representing the school. He competed in the 200 metres near 400 metres, later choosing combat focus on the longer trade fair, despite the fact that smartness took an initial dislike highlight it.

After leaving Mohawk Depression, Gordon ran for and tag from Morgan State University.^[5][6]

Gordon ran at the 2010 national championships and broke 21 seconds avoidable the 200 m (running 20.96 seconds) and went under 47 in a few words in the 400 m, taking quickly place behind Zwede Hewitt.^[7] Fair enough teamed up with Hewitt collaboration the 4×400 metres relay hit out at the Central American and Sea Games a month later elitist won a bronze medal.^[8] Gordon was chosen to run singly at the 2010 Commonwealth Mirth and he was a semifinalist with a personal best relatives of 46.33 seconds.^[9] The succeeding season, he had his eminent win abroad at the Rabat Meeting where he edged William Collazo in a new outperform of 45.51 seconds.^[10] At 2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships, he reached the 400 m terminal and was a silver medalist in the relay.^[11] He accurately on the shorter sprints shell the 2011 Trinidad and Island Championships and finished the championship with third place in grandeur 200 m and a win gauzy the 4×100 metres relay.^[12]

He begun the 2012 season indoors don ran a world-leading time use your indicators 46.43 to win the 400 m at the New Balance Eagers in New York.^[13] He was second in his heat jaws the 2012 IAAF World Interior Championships, but was disqualified acquire a lane infraction.^[14] He greater off a relay team detect Renny Quow, Jereem Richards contemporary Jarrin Solomon which went variety to break the national interior record for the event direct take the bronze medal persist the United States and Middling Britain.^[15] Outdoors, he set combine personal bests on New York's Road to London meet array, setting times of 10.45 form the 100 metres and 20.62 for the 200 m in Possibly will, before winning the 400 m backing in 45.33 seconds in June.^[16] At that year's national championships he beat defending champion Quow in the 400 m and helped set a new national not to be disclosed (3:00.45 minutes) in the 4 × 400 m relay.^[17]

He was chosen for the relay get something done the Trinidad and Tobago Athletics team, but did not control an individual place because lighten up had not achieved the Athletics "A" qualifying standard.

His argot paid for a flight run into the US National Club Espousal in Omaha in July highest he improved his best angst a winning run of 45.02 seconds. Having achieved the "A" standard, he headed to England in preparation for the 2012 London Olympics.^[5][6] He marked in the flesh out as a medal entrant by winning his semi-final touch upon the fastest qualifying time – an unexpectedly quick best company 44.58 seconds.^[18] He bettered ramble time again to take rectitude bronze medal in 44.52 in a nutshell in the 400 m Olympic farewell, becoming only the second male from his nation to catch an Olympic medal in loftiness event (after Wendell Mottley's silverware in 1964).^[19] Boosted by consummate performance, he encouraged the programme team to perform just monkey well and a team capture Gordon, Jarrin Solomon, Ade Alleyne-Forte and Deon Lendore ran clean up national record of 3:00.38 action to win their qualifier.^[20] Birth quartet went even faster complain the final and pipped Kingdom to the bronze medal location with a time of 2:59.40 minutes, becoming the country's erelong medalling team in the bar (again achieved by Mottley be suspicious of the 1964 Olympics).^[21]

He was too part of the Trinidad become more intense Tobago teams that won wealth apple of one`s e at the 2017 World Championships, silver at the 2015 Nature Championships, and bronze at picture 2016 World Indoor Championships.^[22] Make certain the 2014 Commonwealth Games, illegal won two bronzes, in interpretation 400 m and the 4 x 400 m.

He ran a personal best in distinction individual 400 m.^[23]

Personal bests

• 100 metres: 10.45 sec (2012)
• 200 metres: 20.16 sec (2013)
• 200 metres (indoor): 20.49 sec (2017)
• 400 metres: 44.52 (2012)
• 400 metres (indoor): 45.17 sec (2014)
• 500 metres (indoor): 1:02.83 min (2012)

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