Southpaw strongman Triston Gibbons flexed his muscles to a new national shot put record at the Drakes Relays on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.
Competing for the University of Houston, the 21-year-old Gibbons put the shot to a lifetime best 18.89 metres.
While Gibbons finished fifth, he erased his previous best mark of 18.75 he set at the 93rd Houston Spring Break Invitational on March 27 when he broke Tristan Whitehall’s 2015 Barbados record of 17.45 metres.
The former Coleridge & Parry and Harrison College student also had a big heave of 18.73 metres on April 10 at the Texas A&M Team Invitational. (EZS)
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