Emmerson Campbell

Athletes from the Running Brave Athletic Club (RBAC) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) were the star performers of the second Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Development Meet yesterday.

Next Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, boxing fans can look forward to more than just 38 rounds of fistic fury.

Team Coco’s rider, Stephano Husbands, started off the month of February strong in the National Park, winning the feature 35-lap event of the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Mashramani 10-race programme.

In a bunch finish of nine riders, Christopher Holder (Team Coco’s) outsprinted Michael Anthony (Team Evolution) and Akeem Wilkinson (Flying Star) to win the first National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored 40-mile road race of the season.

The 2015 track and field season got underway yesterday with the staging of the first Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) Development Meet held at the Guyana Defence Force ground.

Attorney-at-Law, Keavon Bess was returned unopposed as President of the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) when the body held its AGM yesterday at GOA’s Kingston headquarters.

Marlon Williams kicked off the local cycling season in fine style yesterday, winning the feature 35-lap event of the 22nd annual Ricks and Sari Agro Industries 11-race programme.

The former WBA world welterweight champion has suffered a hairline fracture to his collar bone while sparring and Lewis may be forced to pull out of his February 21 ring date versus Sakima Mullings.

The year 2014 saw Guyana’s powerlifters once again returning with a treasure chest of medals after competing on the international stage.

The sport of bodybuilding in Guyana once again had a flex off with its formidable and perennial rival sponsorship but was still able to hold its own in 2014.

Curfew Tower’s gate-to-pole victory in the feature D and Lower seven and a half furlong event in yesterday’s  Guyana Cup Rematch gave the Colin Elcock trained colt his first career stakes win on local soil in two tries and has his connections thinking about bigger things for the newly imported thoroughbred.

If president of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K Juman-Yassin had one New Year’s wish, it would be the realization of local athletes and coaches becoming full-time paid professionals.

— says Emmerson Campbell   Guyana’s rugby in 2014 saw a 360 degree turn around from 2013 as the national men’s team’s fortunes became historic and monumental after the team won both the North American and Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) 15s and Sevens championships, the former after 43 years.

Richard Williamson boxed his way to the vacant national super bantamweight title with a unanimous decision victory over a game Dillon Allicock on Saturday in the main event of the Rose Hall Showdown.

The victorious national men’s 7s rugby team returned home yesterday from Mexico to a heroes’ welcome, with fans and the top brass of the GRFU turning out to receive the NACRA Champions.

Add a seventh NACRA 7s championship trophy to Team Guyana’s silverware cabinet.

President of Suriname’s Boxing Association, Remie Burke will be visiting next Wednesday to hold discussions with Guyana’s amateur board on regional integration.

By Emmerson Campbell Former WBA world welterweight champion, Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis has been incognito ever since dropping a split decision verdict to Howard Eastman in October 2008.

Score’s Even produced a powerful late surge to win the feature A and Lower seven-furlong event of the Champions of Champions meet yesterday at the Rising Sun Turf Club.

In the boardroom and behind the steering wheel of his Honda Civic, Mohamed Roshandin played an integral dual role in Guyana retaining the coveted Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) country trophy.