GUYANA ended with five individual medals, that included a gold from Inter Guiana Games gold medalist, Soroya Simmons, as the team racked up 143 points to stand in third place when the first day of competition in the Goodwill Swim Meet came to a close on Friday last in Parimaribo, Suriname.

Leading the points tally Trinidad and Tabago whose 478 points end on the first gave them an opening 35 points lead ahead of Suriname. Guyana is just ahead of the 134 points that St. Lucia has, while Barbados is in last place with 131 points.

Guyana’s first day medal haul also included team bronze for Guyana in the Boys’ 11 – 12 and 13 – 14 400m medley relays. Meanwhile unconfirmed results are that Guyana’s Nathan also picked up another gold after winning the boys 11 – 12 100m breaststroke, when the three day competition continued yesterday in the Dutch country. Hackett already has silver from the 50m breaststroke in his age category.

Clocking 1:11.42s, Simmons slide pass Suriname’s Shanine Hoost who finished just milliseconds behind with 1:11.94s. Oinka George also ensured that Guyana finished with a bronze in the event when she came in just behind Hoost clocking 1:13.

However Hoost managed to outmaster Simmons in the 100m freestyle where her 1:02.37s finish overcame the 1:02.79s clocked by Simmons. The event was won by Suriname’s Gabrielle Breidel in a time of 1:01.47s.

Also taking bronze is Anthonio Hussein who finished the boys 11 – 12 100m freestyle in 1:06.47s, defeated only by Trinidadians William Reyes and James Mohamed.

Additionally Accalia Khan won silver in the girls 13 – 14 100m backstroke in a time of 1:17.29s.
The regional competition is scheduled to conclude today.