Guyana’s youngest world champion Gumendra Shewdas was Saturday night honoured by the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) with $500,000 and a plaque for his historic achievement at the World Sub Junior and Junior Championships last month.
Shewdas became world champion at the championships in Killeen, Texas, on August 26 where the five foot, three inches, 115-pound Line Path resident squatted(396lbs), bench pressed (198lbs) and dead lifted (452lbs) to relegate USA’s Dalton La Coe and Russia’s Alexei Kulakov to the silver and bronze medals respectively.
The 18-year old Shewdas was also presented with cheques from Keiolo Blackman,
