HEADQUARTERS rallied to take their 18th title of the Guyana Police Force Inter-Division Track and Field championship, contested at the Leonora Track & Field and Football Facility last Friday.

Headquarters were clear winners after the final day, amassing 487 points, ahead of second-placed ‘A’ Division (345 points), third place ‘C’ Division (276 points) and ‘B’ Division 148 points.
In their dominance, they also carted off the international title, finishing with 402 points ahead of Trinidad and Tobago (102 points) and St Vincent and the Grenadines who finished with a distant 41 points.
Winston George, on his return from the United States, posted a blistering 10.01 seconds in the 100m Male Invitational race ahead of Akeem Stewart, (10.2s) and Tyrell Peters (10.9s) before running a steamy 200m victory in 21s.
George, one of Guyana’s premier sprinters, defeated Trinidad’s Che Hart (21.7s) and Keith Roberts (22.5s) into second and third respectively.
Peters won the 100m Youth Club Male in 10.7 seconds ahead of Emmanuel Sancho (11.1s) and Ronald Gobin (11.3s) while Joshua Hamilton’s 10.4 seconds handed him victory in the ‘A’ Class race ahead of Hart (10.8s) and Roberts (11.1)..
Tevin Garraway won the ‘B’ Class 100m Men for Headquarters in 10.5 seconds as Linton Mentis’ 10.7s could place him only in second place and Owen Adonis (10.8s) third.
Trevor Benn of the ‘C’ Division strutted his stuff in the Senior Officers 100m race for a 10.8s time win, cleaning the floor with Dennis Thomas (11.4) and Derwin Eastman (11.8s).
‘C’ Division’s Deja Smartt clocked 11.7s for the 100m female win ahead of Headquarters’ Leota Babb (12.6) and Onika Eastman (13.3). Babb bettered that finish, however, by producing a 12.8s time to win the Senior Officers race for females.
Kezia Bess won the Youth Club Girls 100m and Arinze Chance the 400m ‘B’ Class. Shion Boyer won the ‘A’ Class 1500m Female race in 5:34.5 with Rondel Austin taking the male version in 4:32.4s.
Julio Sinclair and Roberts shared the International Male Champion award after both athletes ended with 26 points each, while Kevin Bayley’s 20 points gave him the second position.
Trinidad’s Nikita Thomas was the Champion Overseas Female with Sheldon Mason being awarded the male equvalent.
Emmanuel Sancho was the Male Youth Club Champion while Joanna Archer took the female award.
Tandika Burgess, Boyer and Tiffany Carto had to split the Champion Female award while Yoel Benjamin was Champion Male ‘B’ Class with Clarence Greene as runner-up.