Headquarters and Guyana continue to lead after day two

THE penultimate day of competition in the 55th Guyana Police Force (GPF) championships ended without a change in the leadership as Headquarters (HQ) and Guyana augmented their respective totals.


The finish of the 200m Boys (youth club) final. Okeme Stewart dips to take the victory ahead of Dellon DeAbreu.
HQ piled up 143 points on top of their first day’s total and ended yesterday’s round with 260 points ahead of A Division, 157 points, B Division, 127 points, and C Division 46 points.

Guyana was steadfast in their campaign as they added 68 points to their first day total and ended yesterday with a staggering lead of 216 points to Trinidad and Tobago’s 60 and Barbados’ 46.

Yesterday’s events were highly competitive and exciting encounters, Roxanna Rigby, 25.33s,who won the 100m in her category on Tuesday, completed a sprint double in impressive fashion as she completely blew away her competition in the 200m Girls (youth club) race

Okeme Stewart won the 200m Boys (youth club) race in 22.40s disregarding the efforts of Inter-Guiana Games 400m champion Dellon DeAbreu who clocked 22.87s. Janella Jonas, 2:27.79, and Kevin Bailey, 2:01.03, won, in respect of that order, the Girls and Boys (youth club) 800m and Samantha Williams won the women’s 800m in 2:47.22.

The day ended on a high as the finals of the 800m Men’s “B” Class was a heated confrontation between Trevor Scotland and 400m favourite Mark Edwards, 1:59.78. Scotland the eventual winner clocked an amazing 1:59.43.

The games conclude tomorrow with the finals of the 100m, the 200m Men “A” class, the 400m and the relays among other events.

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