… Persaud takes gold in Men’s Recurve & Barebow divisions

ARCHERY Guyana’s (AG) Inaugural Open Competition, sponsored by the National Sports Commission, climaxed last Saturday night at the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) in the final night of the Barebow Division.

The week-long competition commenced last Monday with the ranking rounds for the Barebow Division where all participants from AG and the Archery Guild shot to achieve their best scores.
Competing in the Youth Men’s category was Antuwan Lamazon while in the Youth Women category was Amara Nandan.

The Barebow Women category featured Lisa Khan, Roshini Boodhoo and Tifanny Ramdayal; and in the Barebow Men, Sean Duncan, Jeewanram Persaud, Saeed Karim, Fabian Ramdatt and Kenrick Cheeks were the competitors.

The youths, Lamazon and Nandan, automatically medalled since they were the only ones in their respective categories.
For the Women, Lisa Khan came out on top against Roshini Boodhoo followed by Tifanny Ramdayal. Sean Duncan topped off the Men followed by Persaud, Khan, Ramdatt and Cheeks.

Action continued on Tuesday with the Men and Women Recurve ranking rounds. Sean Duncan again topped the rankings with Jeewanram Persaud just 17 points behind him.
In the men’s eliminations matches Sean Duncan gained a bye straight to the gold medal match from his ranking scores leaving the other men to battle it out to the finals. Persaud beat Karim 6-3 out of 5 sets in Match 1 while Madray beat Ramdatt 6-0 in 3 straight sets in Match 2.

Persaud and Madray then battled in the bronze medal match as Persaud defeated Madray in 3 straight sets of 6-0 to go on to the gold medal match against Duncan
The younger Karim seemed no match for Persaud who beat him 6-0 to go up against Duncan for the gold medal.

The final match was much more exciting as Duncan and Persaud battled it out shooting 5 sets, as Duncan took the first set and seemed confident, but then Persaud took the next 2 sets.
Duncan then won the 4th but didn’t seem to be in his mental game as Persaud was determined and took the 5th set to gain the first 6 points to win.

The Presentation ceremony was then hosted, at which time, National judge, Ryan McKinnon, announced the winners and gave remarks. Congratulations were expressed on behalf of the Director of Sport, Steve Ninvalle, on the hosting of this inaugural event and all archers were congratulated for their participation.

The judges for the competition were: Director of Shooting Nicholas Hing, Line judge Ryan McKinnon and Target judge Dr Ricardo Stuart.
Archery Guyana wishes to thank the Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) for the use of its facility, National Sports Commission for sponsorship, Guyana Beverages Inc., International Business Services and all those who came and supported.