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Duncan, Daniels, Cadogan continue tradition
GOT IT!!! Pomeroon/Supenaam’s, Maxsim Duncan secures the gold medal in the Under-20 Boys’ High Jump with this winning 186cm jump. The schools’ contest is perhaps the only forum for competitive high jumping these days.
By Edison Jefford
Track events often overshadow Field events at Track and Field competitions, but with the right atmosphere at the Albion Community Centre Ground the Under-20 Boys High Jump proved that field events can rival track for attention.
In fact, the absence of field events at Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) meets is an area worth addressing.
The Annual Schools’ Championships continues to churn out some potential field events stars, but what is next for them.
With some of the premier track finals still to be run at the Albion Ground, Pomeroon and Supenaam’s Maxsim Duncan secured the attention of a capacity crowd as he faced uphill challenges from Carlon Pitt and Jermaine Durant.
The event was the Under-20 Boys High Jump and the context was that Duncan, Pitt from Upper Demerara and Durant, representing North Georgetown, were the three jumpers in the final jump-off for the three available medals.
Claps crescendo at the ground as Pitt, a former age-group champion began the rivalry as a clear favourite with his almost perfect flop technique.
Duncan matched Pitt with the flop as Durant went for his precise scissors technique.
Pitt cleared at 181cm and stuck there for third as Durant passed at 182, and struck the bar thrice at the next height to exit the competition with a silver medal.
Duncan easily passed those two heights when he cleared at 186cm to win.
Maxsim showed the attitude of a true champion when he asked officials to continue in the ascendancy after clearing at the winning height, but that did not prove a success since the athlete from the Pomeroon knocked down thrice.
His clear intention was to pursue Robert Bynoe’s 203cm record that was set at Blairmont in 1994 and was never really under threat.
Pitt has the Under-16 record with 174 cm with the mark being established in 2007 at the National Stadium.
Duncan and Shomane Daniels, who leaped to 4.18m in the Under-14 Girls’ Long Jump at the Schools’ Championship, were among those athletes who emerged as definite aspirants for future stardom on the local and international scene.
Daniels, who won the Champion Athlete Award in her age group, also won the 400m and placed second in the Triple Jump.
She had finished fourth in the 100m finals on the initial day of the three-day Track and Field competition.
North Georgetown’s Daniels broke New Amsterdam’s Kimberly Dick record in the 400m with a time of 1:02.8. Dick’s mark was set at 1:03.8 and was done in 2005 at the same old Albion Community Centre Ground in Corentyne.
Upper Demerara’s Parrish Cadogan cannot be excluded from the outstanding athletes’ list in the field events aspect of the event.
Parrish, who has the Under-14 High Jump record, won both the Under-16 Long and Triple Jumps.
Cadogan is a consistent performer in the jumps at this level, whereas Duncan and Daniels are emerging stars who lit up the ground while the spotlight was mostly on the track and more so, the established athletes on the track.
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