Caribbean Regional Badminton Championships 2016
Guyana’s Priyanna and Narayan Ramdhani win gold and bronze respectively at the Caribbean Regional Badminton Championships 2016.
Guyana’s Priyanna and Narayan Ramdhani win gold and bronze respectively at the Caribbean Regional Badminton Championships 2016.

 

… Guyana strike gold, bronze

MEMBERS of Team Guyana at the Caribbean Regional Badminton Championships 2016 were among the medallists when individual action got going in Aruba.Guyana’s Priyanna Ramdhani won two gold medals while her brother Narayan copped bronze at the Centro Deportivo Sports Hall in Aruba.
In the Under-15 Girls’ category, Priyanna thrashed the hosts’ Lyeene Schareir 21-3, 21-4 in the semi-final before taking on Suriname’s Abigael Hing and trouncing her 21-5, 21-4 for the gold medal.
She returned to team up with Daniela Acosta of Dominica to crush Hing & Faith Sariman of Suriname: 21-6, 21-7 for her second gold medal of the evening.
Earlier, the Ramdhani/Acosta team overwhelmed Johanna Lebron Ortiz & Karianet Morales Mercado of Puerto Rico: 21-8, 21-7 in the semi-finals.
Meanwhile in the Under-19 Boys’ singles, Narayan copped bronze after losing at the semi-finals to the Dominican Republic’s Cesar Dominican Republic. Ramdhani earlier went through the quarterfinals by beating Joshua Smith of Trinidad & Tobago.
The Guyana Badminton Team are now playing in the Caribbean Regional Championships which is the third part of the CAREBACO Events at the Centro Deportivo Sports Hall in Aruba. The play-off action took place on August 24 & 25
The CAREBACO championship consists of three phases with the first being the CAREBACO Junior Under-19 International Individual Championships open to all countries, the second being the CAREBACO Junior Under-19 Team Championships.
The third event is the CAREBACO Regional Junior U-11, U-13, U-15, U-17 & U-19 Individual Championships open to only Caribbean countries and members. The 8 countries taking part are Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico & Aruba.

 

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