SEVERAL national records were reset on Sunday at the St Stanislaus College Auditorium when the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) hosted the Masters/Intermediate Championships.
Ending off the day with big wins in the Intermediate category was female lifter Shelly Ann Gomes, alongside her male counterparts Jermy Indarjit (Equipped) and Tremel King (Raw).
In the Masters category, renowned female lifter Nadina Taharally took the Overall female title while Frank Tucker (Equipped) and Noel Cummings (Raw) took the male Overall titles.
Gomes garnered a 275.0kg total through her 97.5kg, 50.0kg and 127.5kg squat, bench press and deadlift attempts. She only had one competitor – who managed only two of the three sets of lifts – and eased to the Overall title with ease.
In the Masters 1 Category, 72 kg weight class athlete and female favourite, Nadina Taharally, brought up her 361.0kg with her 135.5kg squat, 70.5kg bench press and 155.0kg deadlift.
Through her lifts, she reset the bench press and squat records for her category but missed out narrowly on the deadlift record too.
The young Indarjit took much of the limelight in the men’s in the 66kg weight class, rewriting the Men’s Sub-Junior Equipped squat, deadlift and bench press records.
Indarjit managed a 192.5kg squat, 100.0kg bench press and 217.5kg deadlift. His finesse, 510.0kg total and overall strength steered him to wins in the sub-Junior and Open categories of his weight class and to the title of Best Equipped Lifter Male, in the Open class.
Noel Cummings, better known as Uncle Noel, was another who showed fine form.
The septuagenarian won in the 66kg weight class and emerged as the Overall Best Lifter in the Masters 4 Category, managing a 142.5kg squat, 95.0kg bench press and a 182.5kg deadlift (420.0kg. total).
93kg Classic lifter Tremel King took down a 235.0kg squat then brought up a 282.5kg deadlift, and topped that off with his 157.5kg bench press.
With his 675.0kg total, it came as no surprise when he was adjudged the Best Male Overall Lifter in the Open category, easing past Wazim Mohamed and Askhay Goukaran in their weight class.
105 kg Frank Tucker was also adjudged the Best Lifter Male Masters 3 Equipped category with his 215.0kg squat, 92.5kg bench press and 195.0kg deadlift, which totalled to 502.5kg.
Other winners in the Men’s Raw category included: Askhay Goukaran (93kg), sub-junior; Davendra Sookdeo (74kg); Shammah Timothy Noel (83kg); Jeremy Smith (120kg); Arjun Roopnarine (83kg) and John Edwards (120kg), Masters 2.
Goukaran also reset the squat and deadlift records in his category with his 152.5kg squat and 205.0kg deadlift, and Roopnarine reset the bench press record to a final total of 120.0kg.
In the Equipped category, other winners included: Parvattan Neel (74kg) and Edwin Spencer (93kg), Masters 2. Spencer broke the squat, bench press and deadlift records and then rewrote those again in subsequent lifts. His best lifts were his 185.0kg squat, 100.0kg bench press and 200.0kg deadlift, totalling 485.0kg.
Though not a competitor, the 84kg weight class Lisa Oudit also lifted on Sunday. She managed to meet the qualifying mark for the upcoming IPF/NAPF Championships in Paraguay also, rewriting the women’s Open Raw squat and deadlift records.
