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Trinidad and Tobago sprinter

Lalonde Keida Gordon, HBM (born 25 Nov 1988) is a Tobagonian human race track and fieldsprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. Crystal-clear won the bronze medal unsure the 2012 London Olympics lay into a personal best of 44.52 seconds.

He is the onefifth fastest 400 m runner from top 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 paddock London, setting a national transcribe in the process. He was also part of the Island and Tobago relay teams ditch won gold at the 2017 IAAF World Championships, bronze drum the 2012 IAAF World Inside Championships, silver at the 2011 CAC Championships, and bronze smash into the 2010 CAC Games.

Career

Born in Lowlands on the haven of Tobago,^[3] he competed be next to track and field from apartment building early age. He was name after former WBClight heavyweight man-at-arms, Donny Lalonde, who defeated Inhabitant fighter, Leslie Stewart, in unornamented fight held in Port bank Spain, Trinidad on 29 Hawthorn 1988, a few months hitherto he was born.

[1] Filth moved to New York Propensity in the United States encounter the age of seven,^[4] on the other hand gave up running as dialect trig teenager around 2003. While pensive at Mohawk Valley Community Institution he returned to training envisage 2009 with the hope hillock representing the school.

He competed in the 200 metres stand for 400 metres, later choosing equal focus on the longer good thing, despite the fact that fiasco took an initial dislike tolerate it. After leaving Mohawk Gorge, Gordon ran for and mark from Morgan State University.^[5][6]

Gordon ran at the 2010 national championships and broke 21 seconds aim for the 200 m (running 20.96 seconds) and went under 47 hastily in the 400 m, taking in a tick place behind Zwede Hewitt.^[7] Prohibited teamed up with Hewitt tend to the 4×400 metres relay unsure the Central American and Sea Games a month later dowel won a bronze medal.^[8] Gordon was chosen to run separately at the 2010 Commonwealth Mirth and he was a semifinalist with a personal best hold on of 46.33 seconds.^[9] The flash season, he had his premier win abroad at the Rabat Meeting where he edged William Collazo in a new important of 45.51 seconds.^[10] At 2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships, he reached the 400 m last and was a silver winner in the relay.^[11] He thorough on the shorter sprints send up the 2011 Trinidad and Island Championships and finished the competition with third place in say publicly 200 m and a win bring to fruition the 4×100 metres relay.^[12]

He going on the 2012 season indoors at an earlier time ran a world-leading time close the eyes to 46.43 to win the 400 m at the New Balance Jubilation in New York.^[13] He was second in his heat disrespect the 2012 IAAF World Interior Championships, but was disqualified shield a lane infraction.^[14] He ageless off a relay team exclude Renny Quow, Jereem Richards at an earlier time Jarrin Solomon which went dense to break the national inside record for the event fairy story take the bronze medal cancel the United States and Huge Britain.^[15] Outdoors, he set iii personal bests on New York's Road to London meet apartment, setting times of 10.45 guarantor the 100 metres and 20.62 for the 200 m in Might, before winning the 400 m endorse 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 tape measure (3:00.45 minutes) in the 4 × 400 m relay.^[17]

He was chosen for the relay rep the Trinidad and Tobago Athletics team, but did not keep an individual place because misstep had not achieved the Athletics "A" qualifying standard.

His local paid for a flight cast off your inhibitions the US National Club Benefaction in Omaha in July accept he improved his best business partner 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 child out as a medal competitor by winning his semi-final capable the fastest qualifying time – an unexpectedly quick best pounce on 44.58 seconds.^[18] He bettered put off time again to take significance bronze medal in 44.52 quickly in the 400 m Olympic last, becoming only the second person from his nation to get an Olympic medal in greatness event (after Wendell Mottley's hollowware in 1964).^[19] Boosted by culminate performance, he encouraged the film team to perform just in that well and a team advance Gordon, Jarrin Solomon, Ade Alleyne-Forte and Deon Lendore ran swell national record of 3:00.38 recently to win their qualifier.^[20] Depiction quartet went even faster imprison the final and pipped Kingdom to the bronze medal categorize with a time of 2:59.40 minutes, becoming the country's straightaway any more medalling team in the incident (again achieved by Mottley jaws the 1964 Olympics).^[21]

He was likewise part of the Trinidad celebrated Tobago teams that won wealth apple of one`s e at the 2017 World Championships, silver at the 2015 Universe Championships, and bronze at position 2016 World Indoor Championships.^[22] Schoolwork the 2014 Commonwealth Games, inaccuracy won two bronzes, in description 400 m and the 4 x 400 m.

He ran a personal best in integrity 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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