Inter-Guiana Games 2025…

GUYANA’S eastern neighbour Suriname dominated the pool when the curtain came down on the swimming aspect of the Inter-Guyana Games (IGG) at the National Aquatic Centre Liliendaal yesterday.

The home team included more than half of its athletes making their debuts in the event and their inexperience showed glaringly in their performances.

17-year-old Aarav Singh, in his third outing in these games, was the only Guyanese swimmer to win a gold medal adding to his silver Medal in Boys 50-metre breaststroke with Suriname’s swimmers snagging both gold and bronze.

Guyana added two bronze and a silver to their first day tally of one gold, two silver and three bronze to finish with a gold, three silver and five bronze medals.

Andrew McAdam won bronze in the Boys’ 200-metre freestyle, while Jeremy Sookram, one of three Sookram siblings in Team Guyana, took the bronze in Boys’ 50-metre freestyle.

Suriname won 12 gold medals from the 13 races that were contested yesterday, and added to the nine they won on Saturday, for a successful campaign with 21 gold, 11 silver and seven bronze taking back home 39 medals in swimming.

French Guiana took the second spot with three gold, seven silver and nine bronze for a total of 24 medals.

Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Steven Jacobs, presented the medals at the presentation ceremony.