Latest update December 12th, 2024 1:00 AM
Police Sports Club looking to cop $1M first prize at Kares Boyce/Jefford Classic
Davin Fraser is the favourite for sprint double
The eighth edition of the Boyce and Jefford Track and field Classic is set 
for tomorrow and Sunday at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground in Linden.
The athletes confirmed to compete are from eight countries, including the United States of America, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Bahamas, St. Lucia, Martinique, and for the first time at the meet, Uganda and Barbados.
The clubs will be competing for $2 million in cash with $1 million allotted to the winner; $500,000 to second place; $300,000 to third place and $200,000 fourth place. Once again, Police Sports Club is set to have the highest number of athletes participating in the two-day event in addition to having top contenders for the two most exciting races; the 100m and 200m. Those contenders are Davin Fraser and Owen Adonis.
Davin Fraser is the immediate favourite for the Men’s 100m dash with a personal best (PB) of 10.3s. Frasers nemesis for the past few seasons has been Winston George, the current Guyana and South America 100 m champion who will not compete in the meet this weekend as he is currently at the World Championships in London, England.
Fraser is also a strong favourite on paper in the 200m sprint with a PB of 20.58s. Although being the favourite on paper for the sprint doubles, Davin explained that, “It’s a hard task but I’m just going out there to do what I have to do although I’ve not really competed a lot for the year.
This is actually my second meet; the first was an AAG (Athletic Association of Guyana) meet in February at Lenora.”
Fraser noted that he is at 85% fitness now and due to the fact that he didn’t get to train a lot this year as a result of a painstaking transfer process from his former club GDF to Police Progressive Youth Club.
The second of Police Sports Club’s top sprint entrants at this meet, Owen Adonis, will only compete in the 200m.
The 24-year-old Adonis who received a sports scholarship to attend the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica, is a second year Business Management student who has a PB of 21.47 over the 200m; an improvement from his 21.89 that he was clocking while at the University of Guyana before joining UWI in 2016.
Adonis told Kaieteur Sport that: “The volume and consistency of training at the UWI Mona Campus Track Club has resulted majorly in my improved timings.” Not only his, but Emmanuel Archibald, who had also received a Track Scholarship to attend the school. Archibald has a season best time of 21.29 in the 200m and clocked 10.5s at the 2017 senior championships; the GDF athlete will be a definite threat for the sprint titles as well.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
Raises and Recognition
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In the movie, Saturday Night Fever, Tony Manero‘s boss offers him a raise after he... more
High-Stakes Bid for OAS Secretary General post
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- The election of a new Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS),... more
Weekend Cartoon
