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Jun 25, 2013 Sports
After a distant third place finish from Omari Dunn in the opening 750m swim-leg of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) World Olympic Day Triathlon, national cyclist, Raynauth Jeffrey put on a class performance on the second leg to hand Cavin McDonald a defendable lead in the final athletics stage.
The Sprint-Triathlon, which started at the National Aquatics Centre and finished at the National Park, commenced GOA’s weekend of activities for Olympic sports in Guyana. A draw decided the 20 teams that will comprise swimming, cycling and athletics trio.
Team 10 consisting of swimmer, Dunn, cyclist, Jeffrey and athlete, McDonald came out on top of the Triathlon. Dunn gave Jeffrey and McDonald immense work following the swimming leg after finishing a distant third behind Omar Adams and Olympian, Nial Roberts.
Jeffrey then pedaled his way to second in the cycling leg that was ridden from the Aquatics Centre to the National Park with an additional eight laps, Jeffrey made up distance with rider Warren McKay, who took over from Roberts as both McKay and Jeffrey finished about 1500m ahead of the field.
Cavin McDonald ensured that he capitalised on the excellent work from Jeffrey to finish the event on top for Team 10 despite a blistering chase from Devon ‘Scooby’ Barrington, who finished second.
Barrington had National Junior Sportsman of the Year cyclist, Paul DeNobrega and swimmer, Accalia Khan on his team. The third place team, including swimmer Isaac DaSilva, cyclist Akeem Arthur and athlete Desmond Amsterdam.
Team nine with the make-up of swimmer Athena Gaskin, cyclist, Andre Abdool and Alika Morgan placed fourth while the team including, swimmer Soroya Simmons, cyclist Christopher Holder and athlete Rondel Austin finished fifth.
The GOA concluded its World Olympic Day activities with a 10km team walk/run Sunday.
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