PORT-OF-SPAIN, 28 May 2010: Trinidad & Tobago’s Cleopatra Borel-Browne has targetted a shot put medal at the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi as her primary focus this year. She won the bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne four years ago and she now aims for a brighter colour this October, the Jamaican Gleaner reported.
“The goal for this year is to bring another Commonwealth medal back to T&T,” the 31-year-old Borel Brown. “The competition will be pretty steep. Valrie Vili (the reigning Olympic, World, and Commonwealth champion from New Zealand) is arguably the No.1 shot-putter in the World and the Commonwealth.
“It is going to be a tough meet, but I am preparing for it. I am really excited. It is at a difficult time of the year for track and field – October, but I really like competing for T&T. I believe I have a very good chance to bring home a medal, and I don't take that lightly, so I am going to go out there and do my best,” she said.
In Melbourne, Borel-Brown won bronze with a distance of 17.87 metres to finish behind Vili and Vivian Chukwuemeka of Nigeria.
Last Sunday, she continued her preparations for the Games with a victory at the Brazil Grand Prix in Rio de Janeiro, with a season's best throw of 18.05m. “I am trying not to limit myself,” she said. “I would like to throw a personal best, of course. I would like that to happen at the Commonwealth Games, but I will take it anywhere.”
Borel-Brown, who holds the T&T national record at 18.91m, explained that her preparations for the Commonwealth Games may have cost her a place in the final of the shot put at this year's World Indoor Championships in February in Doha. She finished 12th with a distance of 18.31m. “My training for Doha was not intense as it would have been if the World Indoors were the sole focus of the year,” she said.
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