Four swimmers strike gold as GASA Long Course meet commences

Nikhil Ramnarine, Leon Seaton, Aleka Persaud and Paul Mahaica all captured gold medals when the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association’s Long Course meet got underway yesterday at the National Aquatic Centre, at Pattensen.

The Long Course Swim Meet, which is called also the Mashramani meet, is the association’s first event for the year and is being used as a time trial for the CARIFTA 2015 Swimming Championship to be held in Barbados in April. Persaud, swimming in the Girls eight years and under category, swam away with the gold medal in the 50m Butterfly, the 50m Breaststroke and the 100m Freestyle events.

Also winning gold in the Boys eight years and Under category was Mahaica who