Emmerson Campbell

Former Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) welterweight titlist, Simeon ‘Candy Man’ Hardy has been reinstated as champion and will replace Jamaican, Sakima Mullings in the WBC Cup.

Sixteen of the nation’s top football clubs will vie for supremacy and the $3M first prize starting tomorrow when the inaugural Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Banks Beer Premier League (BBPL) kicks off at the McKenzie Sports Club in Linden.

Last year’s 74kg Master Two world power lifting champion and two-time World Masters medalist, Winston ‘Little Master’ Stoby returned from Orlando, Florida on Sunday after smashing his world dead lift record en route to lifting the overall silver medal at the World Masters Power lifting Championships.

Boxing fans will get their long awaited fill on October 13 as three CABOFE champions Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell, Dexter ‘De Kid’ Marques and Edmond ‘Wonder Boy’ DeClou will highlight 28 rounds of fistic fury at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Last year’s most successful cyclist, Robin Persaud, powered to his sixth  win of the season by outlasting this year’s most successful, Alanzo Greaves to claim the ninth annual Laparkan Holdings Limited feature 35-lap event in the National Park yesterday.

In an extraordinary display of speed, power and stamina, national road race champion, Raynauth Jeffrey emerged winner of yesterday’s Powerade 50-mile road race at West Demerara.

National Junior Road race champion, Michael Anthony proved yesterday that he can not only compete with the seniors but he can also beat them.

The fistic sport of amateur boxing received a shot in the arm yesterday when regional conglomerate, Ansa McAL agreed to partner with the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) to host a series of cards dubbed ‘Mackeson Fight Night’.

A three-member team of Guyana’s premier bodybuilders spearheaded by reigning Mr.

Incumbent president of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC), Peter Abdool and the other executives were all re-elected to their posts when the board held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday at the Civil Defence Commission.

Top veteran, Stephen Fernandes powered to his first win of the season yesterday by out pedaling 20 other rivals to claim the feature 35-lap event of the 13th annual DeSinco Trading  sponsored 11-race cycle programme.

FIFA will consider shelving Guyana’s Goal Project which $US120, 000 has already been expended on if progress is not made by next March.

To say that national star rider, Alanzo Greaves is having a remarkable year would be a massive understatement.

The coaching staff has intensified preparations of the national men’s and women’s sevens rugby squads ahead of the two-day  North American Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Seven’s tournament  which kicks off on November 9 in the Cayman Islands.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association K. Juman Yassin yesterday said that he was hopeful that the athletes who will be participating in the upcoming South American Juniors championships in Lima, Peru, would go on to represent Guyana at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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.

A small but excited crowd was on hand at the South Dakota Circuit yesterday to witness local ace driver Kevin Jeffrey power his Mitsubishi Evolution VIII to two victories in the Group 4 category of the second GMR&SC National Race of Champions.

Bronze medalist at last year’s Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships, Kerwin Clarke is looking to emulate that achievement when he poses and flexes his chiseled physique at this year’s edition later this month in the Dominican Republic.

Guyana’s first ever U18 World Champion powerlifter Gumendra Shewdas and lifters who won medals at July’s Caribbean and PanAmerica powerlifting championships yesterday paid a courtesy call to president Donald Ramotar.

From the humble beginnings of Corriverton to the top of the power lifting world stands the 5-foot, 3-inch, 115-pound gladiator, Gumendra Shewdas.