THE Fort Wellington boys’ 4x400m team of Godwin Humphrey, Rue Chester, Okemi Porter and Dave Torrington yesterday struck gold in the High School boys’ 4×400 at the Penn Relay, as the competition entered its final day at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The quartet clocked 3:24.41s to top the league of 11 teams and defend their title in the event. The team also improved their timing, shaving seconds off the 3:26.95s that they clocked last year in the same event.

The 4x400m was Fort Wellington’s second relay, as they were also in the High School boys’ 4x100m small school heats. That team comprised Chester, Humphrey, Jeremy Campbell, and Loneil Marks and clocked a time of 46.84 seconds. With almost 300 entries in this race,the boys were facing a tough task to make it through to the next round.
The Fort Wellington boys were participating at the event along with another all Guyanese team from the Guyana Technical Institute.