Andrew ‘Six Heads’ Lewis competed at the 1992 Olympics

WITH three days to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympics and apart from giving constant updates on our athletes’ performance at the Games, I will be doing a series of ‘DID YOU KNOW?’, highlighting some known, and unknown facts about our participation at the World biggest multi-sport event.
In today’s edition: DID YOU KNOW that Andrew ‘Six Heads’ Lewis represented Guyana at the 1992 Olympics Games in Barcelona, Spain? Yes, the same Olympics where the USA unleashed the famous ‘Dream Team’.

In fact, history would show that Lewis and Dillion Carew qualified for Barcelona by excelling at the Olympic Qualifier in Argentina.
Lewis qualified for the Men’s Welterweight, while Carew competed in the Light-Welterweight category.
Germany’s Andreas Otto was Lewis’s opposition when he narrowly lost (7:8). Otto went on to reach the Quarter-finals but lost to eventual gold medallist Michael Carruth from Ireland.
Lewis was an accomplished Amateur boxer. He won Guyana’s ONLY silver medal at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Mexico, when he went down to Cuba’s Julio González in the Light-Welterweight division final.

In fact, Guyana won three medals at the 1990 CAC Games; apart from our lone silver medal from Lewis, Featherweight boxer Mark Richardson picked up a bronze for reaching the semi-finals of the division, and sprinter Junior Cornette claimed bronze in the Men’s 200m finals.
Lewis turned pro one year after his Olympic participation and in 2001, he claimed the World Boxing Association (WBA) Welterweight championship.
At the end of his career, the man from Albouystown had a ring record of 23 wins (20 by KO), four losses and two draws. He was also an inspiration to an entire generation of fighters and champions.
Lewis died in 2015 following an accident on the East Bank Demerara roadway.