NARDA Mohamed and Anand Mangra were gold medal winners over the weekend when Archery Guyana’s annual competition to commemorate Olympic Day shot off at the National Gymnasium.

With all World Archery rules of competition and safety in place, Director of Shooting, Frederick Ewing-Chow, blew the first whistle to commence the afternoon’s competition.

In the Senior Women’s Class, 4 ladies competed. They were Shereeda Yusuf, Samira Duncan, Narda Mohamed and Vidushi Persaud-McKinnon. While in the Junior Class, Jessica Callender was the lone competitor.

Action began with the females starting off the competition with a qualifying round, each shooting 5 ends of 3 arrows each (a total of 15 arrows) to qualify for the final round. The 3 ladies to make it to the final round were Mohamed (46 points), Duncan (53) and Yusuf (10) points.

This final round was hotly contested by the ladies, resulting in a tie between Mohamed and Duncan which provided some extra excitement with a shoot-off of 1 end of 3 arrows each which the former won.

The Junior Class saw lone competitor, Jessica Callender taking away the Gold.

In the Senior Men’s Class there were 7 competitors with Mangra taking on Robert Singh, Ryan McKinnon, Antonio Hackette, Colin Loncke, Nicholas Hing and Umasankar Madray.

There was heated competition during the first round with the results of the final three men showing McKinnon with 106 points ahead of Mangra’s 95, followed by Hing’s 88 points.

The final 3-end round saw action with McKinnon, Mangra and Hing contesting the coveted Gold medal which ended with Mangra taking Gold (83 points) ahead of McKinnon’s 72 for Silver, and Hing with 65 for Bronze.

After the competition, wheelchair-assisted and potential Paralympic archer, Uttamkumar Isurdeen, who met with many of the Archery Guyana coaches and members, https://www.facebook.com/uttamkumar.isurdeen?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browserwas given instruction on the use of the Olympic re-curve bow.