A dominant year for Orville Hinds and his club, Team Gillette Evolution, a change in the federation’s leadership and the surprise drug testing of cyclists local and international were the talking points of the local cycling circuit last season.
So you have made your fitness resolutions and you really want to keep them.
A three-member team of amateur boxers will wing out tomorrow for Trinidad to represent Guyana at a one-night championship on Tuesday.
A weekly series of fitness and health tips commences today. The Fitness and Health Column, will feature articles by award winning sports journalist and Guyana’s Men’s Physique Champion Emmerson Campbell, who will outline and illustrate ways in which you can achieve your fitness goals on the way to better health.
Even if it was just for one day, Just Call Me Boss was in charge of all local thoroughbreds.
The long awaited Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Boxing Hall of Fame is now a reality.
Up-and-coming pugilist Kevon Mullings yesterday punched his way to the best boxer award when the second and final Pepsi/Michael Parris Under-16 tournament concluded at the Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis Gym.
The just concluded 2015 National School’s Cycling, Swimming, and Track and Field Championships will mostly be remembered for the record breaking feats achieved by sprint prodigy Kenisha Phillips.
North Georgetown’s Jason Yaw smashed the boys’ under-20 400m record en route to recording a sprint double but the category’s champion boy’s historic performance was not enough to prevent Upper Demerara/Kwakwani (District 10) from regaining the coveted Champions of Champions trophy.
The fastest female in Schools Track and Field history, Kenisha Phillips claimed her second record for the 55th annual Championships yesterday with an emphatic victory in the Girls 200m under-16 final.
The intermittent showers yesterday failed to put a damper on Day 3 of the National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships as the standout student athletes set the track ablaze with some scintillating performances.
Despite the overcast conditions, Day Two of this year’s National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships had some commendable performances.
Following a colorful march past, Minister of Education, Rupert Roopnaraine yesterday trumpeted the importance of the annual National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships in his feature address at the opening ceremony at the National Stadium.
In excess of 1500 student athletes and teachers from across Guyana have converged in the city to compete in the 55th edition of the National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships which starts today.
Telecommunication giant, Digicel has once again answered the call for support of a sporting event.
Guyana has retained the coveted country award of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) for the third consecutive year by eight points.
The 2015 Seaboard Marine CMRC is a wrap, Trinidad and Tobago perhaps wrested the coveted country championship trophy from Guyana but ace driver, Kristian Jeffrey certainly drove off with the individual Group 4 honours again.
National cyclist, Orville Hinds capped a dominant year on the saddle by winning the 16th Diamond Mineral Water 50-mile road race yesterday at West Demerara.
Daredevils from Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and the Cayman Islands will push their start buttons today as their high velocity machines line up for the final leg of the 2015 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) at the South Dakota Circuit.
Hassan Mohamed will bring the curtain down on his calendar of cycling events for the 2015 season this weekend with back-to-back races.
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