Twenty-three-year-old, T&T-based Guyanese powerlifter, Dominic Tyrell and 16-year-old Romeo Hunter along with Referee/Manager Franklyn Brisport-Luke are off to the World Classic & Equipped Sub-Junior & Junior Powerlifting C/ships set for Romania.
The championships which will commence tomorrow will end September 3rd.
According to a release, Tyrell left Trinidad yesterday morning while Hunter and Brisport-Luke departed Guyana on Monday evening, via the Eugene Correia International Airport at Ogle.
The powerlifters and the lone official are expected to be in Romania by this morning ahead of the biggest competition of their careers. They are both getting into Romania well ahead of their competition dates in order to acclimatise and be focused on the task at hand.
Tyrell will be contesting the Junior 74kg division (classic) with competition set for August 30th against 19 other athletes from Canada, Spain, India, France, Italy, Singapore, Hungary, Mexico, Ireland, New Zealand, Great Britain, Philippines, Kuwait, and Turkey. He will be lifting on August 30th.
Also aiming to better his counterparts in the classic division, 83kg class, is Hunter, who will take on 20 other lifters from Finland, Italy, USA, New Zealand, Great Britain, Slovakia, India, Czechia, Ireland, Canada, Turkiye, Thailand, South Africa and Japan. Competition day for Hunter will be August 31st.
The executive of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) is extending sincere gratitude to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, the National Sports Commission and the Guyana Olympic Association for their support towards making the attendance of the athletes and officials, possible, the release stated.
This is the second World championships that the GAPLF is attending this year. Carlos Petterson-Griffith attended the World Classic Open Powerlifting Championships held in Malta, in June, while the federation will send a three-member team to the World Classic & Equipped Masters Powerlifting Championships scheduled for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in October.
Come Sunday the federation will be staging its 2023 Raw National Championships at the National Gymnasium from 09:00hrs.
