Category: Sports

– Gardner wows crowd after guest poser’s no-show By Avenash Ramzan Kerwin Clarke of Buddy’s Gym won the Male category, while the multi-talented Alisha Fortune was the lone female bodybuilding competitor, carting off that title for third time in succession at the third biennial Malta Supreme Hugh Ross Classic on Saturday evening at the National Cultural Centre. In the Miss Figure competition, Nadina Taharally of Interline Fitness Gym got the nod ahead of Letitia Myles of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and Ashanti Fortune of Body Maxx Gym, who finished…

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Priyanna Ramdhani ensured Guyana did not return home empty handed when she secured two bronze medals and a second place finish in the Consolation Round at the XXI Pan American Badminton Championships in Alberta, Canada on Sunday. Playing at the Sherlock Edmond Park facility, the reigning Junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year claimed the two medals on Sunday evening after spirited performances in the Under-11 Girls Doubles and the Mixed Doubles semi-finals. Her effort this year doubled her achievements of 2010 and 2011 when she also won bronze in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica…

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– Smashes Commonwealth Junior Deadlift record Guyana’s only representative at the North American Powerlifting Championships, Anis Ade Thomas, ensured that the Golden Arrowhead enjoy a commanding presence on the podium, as he won a silver and bronze medal at the event, which concluded on Sunday in the Cayman Islands. Competing in the 83-93kg Men’s Junior category, Thomas captured silver with personal bests and national records in Squat (265kg/ 584.32lb), Bench Press (132.5kg/ 292.16lb) and Deadlift ( 295.0kg/ 650.47lb) for a grand total of 692.5kg/ 1,526.96lb. Brooks Conway of the United…

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Guyana’s Under-17 Junior Jaguars suffered a 1-3 defeat at the hands of Suriname when Group Four action in the Caribbean Football Union World Cup Qualifying competition got going at the Hasley Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The young Guyanese were outplayed by a much more oiled Suriname side that took the lead in the 16th minute through a well taken shot by Gainsa Jofrendi that Guyana’s goalkeeper Jason Cromwell had no chance of stopping. Up to that point of the game Suriname controlled proceedings as the Guyanese…

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Several Guyanese cricketers have continued to shine in Canada’s Elite and Premier League cricket competitions over the past weeks with outstanding batting and bowling performances. On Saturday, former Guyana opening batsman Krishna Arjune fashioned a brilliant 108 to spur Viking Cricket Club in the Elite League, while Wasim Haslim also registered a century (119) for Apollo Sports Club. Travis Blyden, in his second season for United Cricket Club in the premier League division, also showed great consistency. Having already chalked up four half-centuries from seven limited-over games, he scored an…

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-Winner to face Troy Ross for spot on WBC Cup of Champions After a humiliating first round defeat at the hands of Barbados’ Shawn ‘The Sniper’ Cox during the WBC CABOFE Caribbean Cup Eliminator in February, Guyana’s ex-world champion, Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite, will be given a chance to redeem himself when he faces Trinidad and Tobago-based Guyanese, Sean Corbin, in the WBC Cup of Champions Eliminator bout. The fight will be the main attraction on the September 2 card being promoted by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC)…

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By Melinda Bishundyal Guyana National Junior Squash team departs for Jamaica today to compete in the 30th Junior Caribbean Championship which runs from July 20-27. Guyana are the defending champions; they won the male, female and overall titles last year. Guyana have won the tournament for the past seven years. The singles will be contested from July 20-22. The team events will commence on July 23 and conclude on July 26. The 14-member team include seven former Caribbean junior champions. The Girls team read: Mary Fung-a-Fat, Ashley DeGroot, Rebecca Lowe,…

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St. John’s, Antigua–West Indies have named Guyanese all-rounder Christopher Barnwell and legspinner Devendra Bishoo yesterday in a provisional 30-member squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 to be staged in Sri Lanka in September. Bishoo has been named after being sidelined from the side for some months now. The Berbician recently played for the West Indies A side against India A. Barnwell, a powerful hitter of the ball and a useful medium pacer, has been an on-again-off-again feature in the WI T20 side. Meanwhile, temperamental left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn has…

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