Pan American Games in Chile

ON Monday, American Jahmal Harvey secured a unanimous-decision victory over Guyana’s Keevin Allicock at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
Allicock, Guyana’s last remaining hope for a medal in boxing, had the judges scores at 27-30, 29-28, 30-27, 30-27, and 30-27.
Harvey, who won gold at the 2021 World Championships in the Featherweight division, had drawn a bye in the round of 16.
The last boxing medal for Guyana at the Pan Am Games was secured by Clive Atwell, who earned a bronze in the Men’s 54kg category at the 2007 Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Before the aforementioned, Guyana had won two bronze medals in the 1991 Games in Havana, Cuba, via Terrence Poole (81kg) and Stephan Rose (51kg). Poole is the current national coach.

SWIMMING
Olympian Aleka Persaud clocked 1:00.96s to finish second in Heat 1 of the 100m Freestyle.
The race was won by Grenadian Tilly Collymore (59.87s), but unfortunately, neither of the two progressed to the top 16.
American Amy Fulmer (54.78s) had the fastest qualifying time.
Persaud had entered the race with a time of 1:00.67s — the current national record.
A day prior, she lowered the national record in the 100m butterfly event.
She will compete in the 50m Freestyle today from 09:01hrs.
Meanwhile, Raekwon Noel clocked 8:34.68s to finish third in his 800m Freestyle. It was way slower than his entry time of 8:29.52.
Brazilian Guilherme Costa clocked a new Pan-Am record of 7:53.01s to win gold.