Lalonde Gordon
Gordon in the 2012 Olympic final
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| Personal information | |
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| Born |
25 November 1988 Lowlands, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Education |
Mohawk Valley Community College Morgan State University |
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) |
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| Country |
 Trinidad and Tobago
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| Sport | Track and field |
| Event(s) | 400 metres |
| Club | Zenith Velocity AC |
| Coached by | Trevor Green |
Lalonde Gordon, HBM (born 25 November 1988) is a Tobagonian male track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He won the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics with a personal best of 44.52 seconds. He is the second fastest 400 m runner from his country after Ian Morris.
He took a second Olympic bronze with the 4 × 400 metres relay team in London, setting a national record in the process. He was also part of the Trinidad and Tobago relay teams that won bronze 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships, silver at the 2011 CAC Championships, and bronze at the 2010 CAC Games.
Born in Lowlands on the island of Tobago, he competed in track and field from an early age. He moved to New York City in the United States at the age of seven, but gave up running as a teenager around 2003. While studying at Mohawk Valley Community College he returned to training in 2009 with the hope of representing the school. He competed in the 200 metres and 400 metres, later choosing to focus on the longer event, despite the fact that he took an initial dislike to it. After leaving Mohawk Valley, Gordon ran for, and graduated from Morgan State University.
Gordon ran at the 2010 national championships and broke 21 seconds for the 200 m (running 20.96 seconds) and went under 47 seconds in the 400 m, taking second place behind Zwede Hewitt. He teamed up with Hewitt for the 4×400 metres relay at the Central American and Caribbean Games a month later and won a bronze medal. Gordon was chosen to run individually at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and he was a semifinalist with a personal best run of 46.33 seconds. The next season, he had his first win abroad at the Rabat Meeting where he edged William Collazo in a new best of 45.51 seconds. At the 2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships he reached the 400 m final and was a silver medallist in the relay. He focused on the shorter sprints at the 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Championships and finished the contest with third place in the 200 m and a win in the 4×100 metres relay.
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