Category: Sports

Farfan and Mendes First Division Men’s Hockey League… In their second round clash with Old Fort in the Farfan and Mendes Men’s first division hockey league, GCC emerged victors by a convincing 6-2 margin to lead the points standing midway through the round. The relentless GCC strikers pressed the game into the Old Fort half from the opening whistle, but squandered two early chances as both Orland Semple and Kevin Spencer missed the target in what seemed to be certain goals.  Spencer however, would be the first to score as…

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The second edition of the Guyana Golf magazine was launched on Friday evening during a cocktail reception for the Guyana Open Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) clubhouse, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara. The magazine, which came out just in time for the XM Rum Guyana Open Golf tournament last weekend, was a collaborative effort of the LGC, publishing company, Corbin Media Group (CMG), and other stakeholders who worked together with the aim of promoting the sport locally, regionally and internationally. The 2012 edition of the magazine has on…

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Overcoming an unexpected delay caused by hurricane Sandy to his goal of competing at the World Open Powerlifting Championships, Randolph Morgan captured the gold medal in the deadlift, mere hours after arriving for the competition. Competing in Puerto Rico, Morgan had a commanding lift of 330kgs/727.65lbs to cop the medal ahead of Bulgaria’s Todor Vasilev (325kgs/716.62lbs) and Ecuador’s Jose Castillo (322.5kgs / 711.11lbs). Hurricane Sandy left Morgan and his accompanying coach, Denroy Livan, stranded in New York on Monday with no hope of arriving in Aguadilla Puerto Rico the same…

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– Foreigners to invade Lusignan Golf Course By Avenash Ramzan Approximately 80 local and foreign golfers will compete in the prestigious Guyana Open golf tournament, billed to tee off this weekend at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara. The premier tournament on the local golf calendar has once again attracted corporate support from beverage giant, Banks DIH Limited, who will exclusively sponsor this year’s event under its XM brand of aged rums. Speaking at the launch of the competition yesterday morning at the company’s location at Thirst Park, Secretary…

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Competing under the name, ‘Red Jags’, Guyana will vie for supremacy at the Bago Sports International Beach Soccer tournament, set to start tomorrow and end on Monday at the Turtle Beach, Black Rock Heritage Park, Tobago. Ahead of what is anticipated to be a very competitive tournament featuring selected teams from Jamaica, United States of America, Switzerland and Brazil, the acting president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Franklin Wilson, met with the team on Tuesday at the Bayroc ground in Linden. Wilson congratulated the team and management for the…

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By Avenash Ramzan Clive Atwell and Sean Corbin were crowned World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) champions last Saturday evening when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control staged its ‘Redemption’ boxing card at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. A supremely fit Atwell completely outboxed Trinidad and Tobago’s Prince Lee Isidore to lift the Junior Welterweight title, while Corbin proved too good for former world champion, Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite, earning a unanimous decision to become the new Cruiserweight champion. In the other fights of the night, Dexter Marques…

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President of the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF), Lennie Shuffler, has been invited to meet with new president of the world governing body for volleyball, the FIVB, Dr. Ary Graca, and executives of the South American Volleyball Federation (CSV) in Rio, Brazil, on November 12-13. This is a follow-up to Shuffler’s continued request for Brazil to become ‘Big Brother’ to the GVF and that a South American Volleyball Association be formed, comprising the federations of Amapa (Brazil), Cayenne, Suriname, Guyana and Roraima (Brazil). Shuffler feels this will be the first instance…

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By Avenash Ramzan The 23rd annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament was launched yesterday, two days after the Georgetown Football Association announced plans for the second Banks Beer Knockout Cup, which will run concurrently. Like the Banks Beer Cup, the Kashif and Shanghai competition will run from December 16, 2012, to January 1, 2013, with the Most Valuable Player receiving a motor car. One of the co-directors of the Kashif and Shanghai Organisation, Kashif Muhammad, speaking at the launch at the Princess Hotel boardroom, said the tournament has once again…

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