Brown, Borel win WITCO sports awards

ATHLETICS scored the anticipated double at the West Indian Tobacco Sports Foundation awards ceremony last night. World Junior sprint king Darrel Brown, was named Sportsman of the Year 2002, and shot putter Cleopatra Borel Sportswoman of the Year.

For Brown, his outstanding victory was in the 100 metres at last year’s World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica.At that games, Brown flashed across the finish line in a games record time of 10.00 seconds, faster than any 17-year-old ever, despite running into a very powerful headwind. He also had a golden run in record time at the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Barbados, clocking 10.18 seconds.Brown got the nod at the awards ceremony held at the Hilton Hotel last night, over boxer Kerston Manswell who was silver medallist at both the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England, and again at the Central American and Caribbean Amateur Boxing Championships. Borel threw the shot for gold at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Indoor Championships in Arkansas, and got silver at the North American, Central American and Caribbean championships in San Antonio, Texas. She later just missed out on the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games, which would have made her the first ever Trinidadian woman to earn a medal at these games.