South American U20 championships in Peru…

Guyana ended their participation South American under 20 championships on Saturday when sprinter Athaleyha Hinckson pulled out of the 200 metres finals.
Manager/Coach Kenisha Headley told Chronicle Sport that, “Hinckson sustained a muscle pull in the 100 finals which caused her severe pain.”

The coach said she was, “Trying to manage it but saw no improvement and therefore made the decision to pull the athletes, she has world juniors in a month and they don’t want to compound the issue.”
Headley was the only official with the three athletes with no travelling physiotherapist or doctor to boost recovery of athletes after races, something which has been a sore issue over the years at international meets.

Hinckson had already won a gold medal in the women 100 metres a day earlier with a blistering run of 11.76 coming in ahead of Colombia’s Maturana Maria second in 11.85 seconds and Vanessa Dos Santos of Brazil was third in 11.86 seconds.
Meanwhile the other two medals came from Tiana Springer and Malachi Austin in the 400m events.

Springer copped a time of 54.84 seconds in the semi to advance to the final where she collected a bronze medal after a run of 55.12 seconds.
Malachi Austin coming out of lane 2 put in a top quality showing to beat his counterparts to the line in 47.21 seconds for the gold with Ecuador’s Ian Andrey second in 47.69 seconds and Brazil’s Vinicius Moura third in 48.29 seconds.

The Guyana contingent is set to leave Peru today and arrive home on Tuesday morning.