A TEN-member team of boxers returned from Suriname on Sunday with a one hundred percent victory record, following an international competition in Paramaribo Saturday evening.
The successful Guyanese team brought home ten gold medals after winning six fights within the distance and the other four on points.
Future Olympic prospect Keevin Allicock, Christopher Moore, Desmond Amsterdam, Markember Pierre, Renee Lewis and Floyd Cato stopped their opponents while Joel Williamson, Rhondel Douglas, Anil Chaitraj and Colin `Superman’ Lewis won on points.
The boxers were coached and managed by Clifton Moore, who was assisted by Steel Crawford. Ramona Agard and Lawrence Assanah of the Guyana Defence Force who represented Guyana in the referee/judge department.
Saturday’s tournament kicked off a series of tournaments between the two countries following a meeting of Remie Burke, president of the Suriname Boxing Association and his Guyanese counterpart Steve Ninvalle here in October.
Suriname has promised to send a team to the Caribbean Schoolboys and Juniors tournament to be staged in Guyana next April and plans to participate in the first Inter-Guianas boxing competition to be held here in October.
The GBA extends gratitude to Chief Executive Officer of Secure Innovative and Concepts Inc., Harold Hopkinson, for assisting in making the trip to Suriname possible.
