… swimmers, table tennis players fail to meet finals on opening day

IT certainly wasn’t the start to this year’s South American Youth Games that Guyana was hoping for, with the country’s athletes all failing to reach the medal round of their respective disciplines.

Guyana is being represented in the areas of badminton, boxing, table tennis, 3X3 basketball and swimming.
Swimmers Paul Mahaica (56.79s), and Leon Seaton Jr ((54.88) finished in the top three of their respective semi-finals of the men’s 100m freestyle event, but their times were not good enough to see them move on to the finals.

Vladimir Woodroffe will take to the pool for his first event today.
In table tennis, Jonathan Van Lange was impressive during his run in the Boy’ singles event. After seeing off David Herrera 4-0 (12-10, 11-5, 9-11, 11-4, 11-5), Van Lange bowed out in the Round-of-16, going down in straight sets to Ecuador Diego Piguave (7-11, 5-11, 6-11, 7-11).

Jasmine Billingy and Thuraia Thomas narrowly missed moving out of the Round-of-32 in the Girls’ singles event.
Meanwhile, Kimol Grimmond, Carmelo Man-son-Hing, Matthias Arrindell and Travis Lewis will battle Venezuela today at 10:25hrs in the Boys 3X3 basketball event.
The South American Youth Games, first held in 2013, is a multi-sport event, held every four years and caters for athletes aged 14-18 years old.