GUYANESE swimmer, Raekwon Noel, delivered a dominant performance at the inaugural Pan Am Aquatics Championships in Medellin, securing four gold medals and establishing new national records in each winning event.

Noel’s successful run concluded on Friday evening with his fourth gold in the 400m freestyle. He touched the wall in 4:00.66s, securing victory and breaking another Guyanese national record.

His gold medal haul began earlier in the competition with wins in the 100m and 200m butterfly, and the 100m backstroke. Each victory also resulted in a new national benchmark for Guyana.

In the 100m backstroke, Noel clocked 56.78 seconds for gold, finishing ahead of Colombia’s Gabriel Hernandez (57.04s) and Puerto Rico’s Suil Quinoes (59.27s).

Noel also won the 200m butterfly final in 2:02.53, outpacing Puerto Rico’s Andres Brooks (2:04.04) and Mexico’s Mark Van Eybergen (2:05.69). This time significantly improved his national record, which he had already lowered in the heats from 2:04.21 to 2:03.33.

His victory in the 100m butterfly saw him set a new national record of 54.00 seconds.

The achievement of four gold medals and four national records at a single Pan Am Championships marks a significant milestone for Guyanese swimming and for the inaugural event.

Noel, an Olympian currently on scholarship at Indiana University, has made a notable impact on the regional swimming circuit.

Fellow Guyanese swimmer Shareefah Lewis also competed. After an eighth-place finish in the 50m backstroke final, Lewis swam in the girls’ 16-18 50m butterfly heats on Friday, finishing fifth with a time of 31.44 seconds. She is scheduled to compete in the 50m freestyle heats.