Lalonde Gordon

Lalonde Gordon in the final of the 400-meter run at the Olympic Games in London 2012

Lalonde Gordon ( born November 25, 1988) is an athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 400 -meter run.

His first major international success came at the Gordon IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships 2012 in Istanbul. As first runner in the 4 x 400 - meter relay team of his country, he won the bronze medal together with Renny Quow, Jereem Richards and Jarrin Solomon. Here, the quartet scored a national record with a time of 3:06,85 minutes.

The real breakthrough came in Gordon in the same year at the Olympic Games in London. In the 400 - meter race, he was in a personal best of 44.52 seconds third behind Kirani James from Grenada and Luguelín Santos from the Dominican Republic. Another bronze medal he secured in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. Together with Solomon, Ade Alleyne - Forte and Deon Lendore he ran in national record time of 2:59,40 minutes behind the teams of the Bahamas and the United States in third place.

Bests

• 200 m: 20.63 s ( 1.8 m / s), July 7, 2012 Omaha Hall: 20,58 s 28 January, 2012, Boston

• Hall: 46,43 s, January 21, 2012, New York City