Rachael King
Rachael.king@guardian.co.tt
T&T sprinter Rondell Sorrillo will be pleased with his start to this season, placing third in the men’s 60 metres event in the Rod McCravy Memorial at Nutter Fieldhouse - Lexington in Kentucky, USA, yesterday.
Sorrillo, who is signed with Nike, clocked 6.61 seconds, some way off his best finish in the event, 6.57 achieved last year also in Lexington.
New Balance’s Trayvon Bromell emerged the winner in 6.54, matching his time which he accomplished last year as a senior for Baylor University. Cameron Burrell, a junior from Houston University, was second in 6.60.
It was the first taste of action for the La Brea-born runner since being forced to pull out of the 15th IAAF World Championships held in Beijing, China in August. Sorrillo had suffered a grade 2 strain of the quadriceps, a re-injury of the quads that first occurred three and a half months before in Bahamas at the IAAF World Relays.
The former University of Kentucky athlete will be hoping to make his third Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero in Brazil from August 5-25. The 29-year-old reached the semifinal round in the 100m at the 30th Olympiad in London, England and did not make it out of the heats in the 200m. In the Beijing Olympics, progressed as far as the quarter-final round in 200m.
Sorrillo name was listed in the line-up for the 400m but he did not compete.