GPF 55th athletics Championships Final Day…

TEAM Guyana and Headquarters earned the top accolades at the 55th Guyana Police Force Athletics Championships as they completed their landslide victories during yesterday’s final round of events.

Team Guyana vehemently overpowered Barbados, 111 points, and Trinidad and Tobago, 88 points, with their final score of 415 points.

Members of Team Guyana display their spoils for photographers after just being named Champions of this year’s games.

The race was a bit tighter in the divisional competition which saw Headquarters with their 425 points being closely followed by Division A scoring 313 points, Division B finished in third place with 252 points and Division C closed out the rankings in fourth with their 130 points.

The crowd that turned out was not disappointed as the sprints had the entire congregation of spectators in a state of uproar.

Roxanna Rigby continued her winning streak as she took the 100m Girls’ (youth club) race in 12.1s ahead of Oreneca Haynes who clocked 12.8s and Mawava Maison who placed third with 13.4s.

The Boys’ half of this event was highly competitive with the top three finishers clocking in the 11 seconds time bracket. Okeme Stewart took the top prize with his 11.0s and Curtis Baynes, 11.2s, and Keon Abel, 11.4s, filled out the rankings in second and third places respectively.

The 100m Men ‘A’ Class was won by Senior National Champion, Michael Saul, in 10.5s ousting Trinidad’s Shane Dyer who came in just behind him with his 10.6s mark on the clock.

Former National Junior Champion Keith Roberts also had his say as he completed the series with his 10.7s third place timing.

The ‘B’ Class Men’s 100m race was won by Kordell Mentore in 11.02s who beat Winston George, 11.1s, and Trevor Benn, 11.3s, for the top spot. Leota Bobb dominated the Women’s 100m finishing in 12.1s ahead of Natasha Alder who clocked 13.0s and Gaylene Doris who clocked 13.4s.

Michael Saul completed his sprint double as he later claimed the 200m Men ‘A’ Class with his time of 22.0s, Keith Roberts was once again following in his trail as he took second place with his timing of 22.7s Emanuel Millington was third with 23.5s.

One of the more outstanding performances of the day was when Trevor Scotland, with his time of 51.2s, equaled the standing record in the 400m Men ‘B’ Class. It was a hot contest with race favourite Mark Edwards who clocked 51.3s. Shane Dyer struck gold in the 400m Men ‘A’ Class when he claimed the event in 53.1s ahead of Abraham Millington, 54.2s and Larry Josiah, 57.7s.

After presenting Guyana with the Champion’s trophy Commissioner of Police Henry Greene in his remarks said that he is “happy to have brothers and sisters from overseas police forces participate and make the event more competitive.”

In concluding he bade congratulations to all the participating teams for their outstanding performances.