Category: Sports

Mustopha Rahaman equalled the Pan American Junior Powerlifting record when he lifted 237.5kg in deadlift at the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation Junior and Novices Championships held at the New Amsterdam Multilateral School auditorium on Sunday. Rahaman, of ‘Total Fitness Gym’, competing in the male junior and open categories, tallied 323.399 Wilkes points but it was not enough to top the category. The performance of the 29-year-old earned him an overall eight place. It was another 29-year-old, Marino Jeffrey of Prison Gym with 426.132 Wilkes points that came out as champion…

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– Garraway returns to dominate 100m By Treiston Joseph – Linden’s sensation Cassey George upstaged distance queen Alika Morgan on Sunday, dipping under the five minute mark for the second time this year in the 1500m event when the Athletics Association of Guyana held its second developmental meet at the Guyana Defence Force ground, Camp Ayanganna. In her second 1500m of the year, George went head-to-head with Guyana’s best and did not disappoint, blowing Morgan away in a time of 04: 52.1s after recording 04: 44.1s in her first 1500m…

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National opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul says playing in the current regional Four-Day competition has done wonders for his game, claiming that he has learnt so much just by observing the seasoned players in action. The soft-spoken lefthander, in his first season at the senior level for Guyana, has chalked up 176 runs from four matches at an average of 22, with a topscore of 42 against Trinidad and Tobago. He is the second highest runscorer for Guyana, only behind Leon Johnson with 299 runs. Johnson is the competition’s second highest runscorer…

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– Guyana Times/ TVG Channel 28 journalist Avenash Ramzan receives Sport Journalist of the Year award By Treiston Joseph – The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) officially capped off its 2012 Olympic year with a classy awards ceremony at the Georgetown Club, Camp Street. As high ranking officials and special invitees embellished themselves in their elegant outfits while being serenaded to the soft acoustic melody of the steel pan, the night’s proceeding was brought to an official start by Vice-president of the GOA, Noel Adonis, who welcomed everyone to the event.…

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The annual Torginol Paints Medal Play golf tournament, sponsored by Continental Group of Companies, will be played on Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course (LGC). It is expected to be another keenly contested tournament that will feature several previous winners including last year’s champion Clifford Reis, 2011 winner Fazil Haniff and Colin Ming, who won in 2009. Keen eyes will be focused on the in-form Mohanlall ‘Santo’ Dinnanuth who won last weekend’s Carib Foods Stableford tournament. President of the LGC, Jerome Khan, said that tournaments in the coming weeks will…

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– Preliminary preparations commence, says GCB president Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA), Michael Hall on Wednesday afternoon confirmed that the body is pleased with the players’ arrangements set out by the WICB for the hosting of Guyana’s final two rounds of clashes against Combined Campuses and Colleges and Jamaica. “WIPA was only concerned with one thing – the arrangements for the match reaching the minimum standard. However, we have agreed with the WICB and we now have assurance that it will and so we are…

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By Avenash Ramzan – Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green said he’s confident the 20th annual Mayor’s Cup football tournament will serve to unite persons of all backgrounds when it kicks off this Friday. The mayor made the comment during the launch of the competition at City Hall in Georgetown on Tuesday morning in the presence of representatives of some of the participating teams. According to Green, the tournament started with only Georgetown-based teams, but has since grown to accommodate clubs from the rural areas. This, he said, has served to bring…

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Alfred King returned unopposed as president of the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) when the local referees’ body held its Annual General Meeting on Saturday at the Carifesta Sports Complex in Georgetown. King, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, headed a slate put forward to members and all nominees were elected unchallenged. The majority of the officers served on the previous administration with Carlos Bernard being named as the senior vice-president, Dion Inniss (junior vice-president), Troy Peters (General Secretary) and Dwayne Lovell (Treasurer). Natasha Lewis…

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By Rajiv Bisnauth – Sport Minister Dr Frank Anthony revealed on Wednesday that the Guyana National Stadium is available and equipped to host the West Indies versus Pakistan Test match, which is tentatively scheduled for June this year. This declaration came on the heels of concerns that the country may lose the opportunity to host international matches because of the impasse between the Guyana Cricket Board and the government of Guyana. “The stadium is available to host the Test match, however, as was done in the past we would normally…

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Digital Technology became the latest partner of YOLO Entertainment Production for the staging of the inaugural Chow Pow 10/ 10 Challenge Series. According to a prelease, the company, located on the Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara, has chipped in and contributed Gy$ 1 million and CEO Terrence Sukhu, pledged continued support for the development of softball cricket. Sukhu alluded to the fact that it is family oriented entertainment and therefore support will be a certainty from the company. He also noted that there will be giveaways to patrons on…

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