—-Moore, Alder, Jonas, Moses share female c/ship honour

WITH a whopping 96 points lead, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) was declared the unquestionable winners of the Inter-Service Annual Athletics Championships (ISAAC), after they overcame the efforts of the Guyana Defence Force on Friday night at the Police Sports Club, Eve Leary.

The GPF amassed 639 points, while their arch rivals GDF, ended with 543 points. Of the other competitors the Guyana Fire Service ended with 103 points, the fourth place went to the Guyana Prison Service with 75 points, and the City Constabulary ended in the cellar with 41 points.
In addition to walking away with the overall championship trophy, several of the GPF athletes also returned individual achievements.
The police athletes were all so good that four of them ended up sharing the competition’s Female Champion trophy.
Alita Moore, Natasha Alder, Tracey Moses and Jonella Jonas, all of the Guyana Police Force team, shared the honours of the Female Champion after earning 30 points apiece from events they won throughout the competition.
GDF’s Karlisa Atkinson took the runner up position after she ended with 24 points.
On the men’s side the police were just as fortunate, with sprint champion Winston George able to enjoy glory as the sole titleholder of the Male Champion title after he had 30 points, GDF’s Cleveland Forde was runner up with 28 points.
Contesting the final day of events in the three day competition, the GPF started off with a 46 points lead and barely gave the GDF any chance to close the gap as they continued to rake in high wins throughout the day, beginning with Jonas first place take of the women’s 1500m after her 5:14.08s finish surpassed the efforts of Atkinson who came second in 5:26.70s. Jonas had already captured first places in the 800m and 3000m.
Alita Moore followed with another win for the police in the women’s 100m sprint where she ran 11.08s, leaving team mate Leota Bobb to come in second. Not done yet, Police also ran away with third through Akeela Alves 12.05s.
As the competition got into the night on Friday Moore returned to arrest the women’s 200m (25.50s) and 400m (59.2s) under floodlights.
For her part in the champion trophy Alder took wins in the discus, javelin and Senior NCO’s 100m race.
On the men’s side Police had wins in the men’s 100m, 200m and 400m through George who ran 10.00s in the 100m to win in front of GDF’s Akeem Stewart (10.4s), in the 200m his 20.05s dominated against Davin Fraser (21.03s), and in the 400m he had a time of 49.10s.
GPF prevailed well in the field events, where Ronald Payne set a new event record with his 40.95m throw in the men’s discus, and Natasha Alder captured the women’s discus throw. Long jump winner, Troy Williams, went on to capture the triple jump.
GDF won big in the men’s 1500m where Forde worked hard to win ahead of team mate Tyson Bentick. Forde was determined not to fall to miscalculations as he did when he finished second in the 800m on Tuesday, sprinting away on the final straight to the excitement of the spectators. Forde won in two seconds later. Police’s Nathaniel Giddings managed to finish third.

(By Tamika Garnett)