NO challengers have come forward to run for office for the Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA).So says the general secretary of GAWA, Deion Nurse. The association was scheduled to hold its electoral Annual General Meeting on Friday, but that has now been pushed back by a month.

Nurse told Chronicle Sport that GAWA’s finances are still being audited hence the new date is Friday March 27, 2015 at Olympic House.
For some time now the association has found it difficult to attract enough persons to the sport, whether as competitors or administrators.
Nurse said no gym or individual has offered any names to contest the posts on the executive.
Frank Tucker has been at the helm for some time as president. The vice-presidents are Subrina Pestano and Burt Austin, with Aubrey Henry as the Public Relations Officer; Seon Erskine as treasurer, Sean Cozier as assistant secretary/treasurer and Nurse – the general secretary for the past 13 years.
It was a position he had hoped to give up for this AGM, since he sits on the executive of the Guyana Olympic Association, but now looks set to continue in the role, indefinitely.
The association has been hoping to attract fresh athletes to the sport but it has been struggling. With the lack of interest and the dwindling of the seasoned lifters, the sport seems to have reached a wall that it is finding difficulty to get over or around.
It has not held a national competition since 2011 at any level – novices, juniors, intermediate or senior.
Despite this, the association has set a tentative calendar for national competitions for the year: the Novices on April 5 and a National Open Championship on August 29, both set for the National Gymnasium.