Forde, Pascal win 5000M and 3000M.,
..King leaps to Long Jump Title
– Winston George and Brenessa Thompson through to 100 and 200M finals
THE fifth annual Boyce and Jefford Track and Field Classic is living up to all expectations after completion of day one of the event which has grown to become Guyana’s premier athletics championship.
Watched by a large and vociferous crowd at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground in Linden, Grenada’s renowned athlete Kenisha Pascal won the women’s 3000M, clocking a time of 11 minutes, 34 seconds ahead of Guyana Police Force’s Janella Jonas (11 minutes, 49.10 seconds) and Carlisa Atkinson of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) who ran 11 minutes, 53.70 seconds.
Cleveland Forde turned in a blistering performance to win the Men’s 5000M when he ran 17 minutes and 45 seconds.
Grivon Grant was second (18 minutes, 12.50 seconds) while his Guyana Police Sports Club teammate Nathaniel Giddings (18 minutes, 13.40 seconds) was third.
Patrick King leaped 6.89M to win the men’s long jump. So entertaining and competitive was the event, Linden’s Winston Caesar and Guyana Defence Force’s Leon Bishop both stretched their way to a distance of 6.87M to finish tie for second place.
Meanwhile, Brenessa Thompson and Olympian Winston George were both impressive in winning their 100M and 200M heats and will compete in the finals today.
Thompson ran 12.90 seconds to win the 100M heats and would return to run 26.20 seconds in the 200M heats, which will see her facing Leota Babb, Letita Myles, Onika Eastman, Daniel Clarke, Tiffany Cato, Mearisha Carter and Ebony Nelson.
George, one of Guyana’s top sprinters wowed the crowd at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground with his sublime speed, running 10.60 seconds in the 100M and 22.00 seconds in the 200M.
Trinidad and Tobago’s CARIFTA Games 800M Gold medalist Mark London seems to be the clear favourite to win the 800M event today after coasting to a comfortable victory in yesterday’s heat.
London ran a time of two minutes, 2.70 seconds to win heat one yesterday and will run against Trevor Scotland, Dennis Horatio, Kevin Bayely, Ornesto Thomas, Tyson Bentick, Derrel Pellew and Desmond Amsterdam.
Guyana Police Sports Club leads the team scores with 54 points, behind them is the Guyana Defence Force with 49 points.
Upper Demerara Schools and Mercury Fast Laners are so far tied in third place with 13 points.
(By Rawle Toney in Linden)
