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May 16, 2011 Sports
Local athletes had a chance to continue to gauge their training and preparation yesterday at the Police Sports Club Ground, when the Athletics Association of Guyana joined the world in their celebrations of the IAAF World Athletics Day.
The global symbolic event saw participation from some of Guyana’s leading athletes, including multi-schools’ champion, Jevina Sampson, who won the Under-15 Girls’ 150m race in a time of 19.6 seconds. Llewanna Ross was second in this event with 20.6 seconds while Khulerian Harris finished third in 21.3 seconds.
Kevin Ramlall won the male version of the race in 18.7 seconds with Juwan Westfield second in 18.8 seconds. Cuddy Holder finished third in 19.2 seconds to initiate a day of good tests for some of Guyana’s leading youth and junior athletes at the Sports Club.
In the U-15 Boys’ 80m, Jason Yaw outsprinted Tyrell Peters and Rondel Austin to win the event in 9.4 seconds. Peters was second in 9.6 seconds and Austin third in 9.8 seconds in the extremely close race yesterday.
Leslyn Dublin won the female version in 10.9 seconds with Kiesha Hicks second in 10.6 seconds and Natricia Hooper third in 10.8 seconds. The competition yesterday was held for athletes under the ages of 15 and 18, according to the IAAF classifications.
Sprint ace, Cortez Fraser won the U-18 Boys 100m in 11.0 seconds with Keon Lynch second in a time of 11.1 seconds. Both Christopher Hyderkhan and Tevin Garraway had 11.4 seconds to end up in a tie for the cellar podium positions in the race.
Mowana Maisah had 12.9 seconds to top the female race with Shaquane Daniels second in 13.2 seconds and Alita Moore third in 13.6 seconds. In other brief results, Jevina Straker won the U-18 Girls 1500m and Melissa Byass won the 400m race.
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