Gillick braced for Borlee

JONATHAN BORLEE sounded a warning to Ireland’s David Gillick ahead of next week’s European championships in Barcelona where he expects to run another national record and claim Belgium’s first medal in 16 years.

The 22-year-old Belgian set a new national 400m record at 44.77 secs at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Paris last Friday, a time that equalled the national record which Gillick set in Madrid last year before going on to finish sixth in the 400m final at the world championships in Berlin.

This year Gillick, starved of Diamond League competition, chose the Swiss Alpine town of La Chaux-De-Fonds to set the leading European time at 44.98 and while he came back in Barcelona to improve to 44.95 secs, Borlee had already posted 44.94 in Lausanne.