GOA announces Gold Coast XXI Commonwealth Games contingent-Guyana to be represented in seven sport disciplines

Mar 18, 2018 Sports

ome of the athletes and coaches that will be participating in the Gold Coast games next month at GOA’s office yesterday. Seated from left, Noel Adonis, Godfrey Munroe, K.A. Juman Yassin, Hector Edwards and Sebert Blake.

Guyana will participate in next month’s 21st Commonwealth Games, which will be hosted in the Gold Coast, Australia from April 4th to 15th. With this on the not so distant horizon, the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) held a press conference at their Lilliendaal head office to announce the participants from the relevant sports disciplines.
The Golden Arrowhead will be represented by seven disciplines during the games, namely Badminton, Boxing, Rifle Shooting, Squash, Swimming, Table Tennis and Athletics. At the press conference, the associations’ representatives, which included coaches, expressed a general feeling of satisfaction with their squad and respective preparations in the lead up to the event.
Head of the GOA, the long serving K.A. Juman-Yassin, noted that Guyana’s athletes who will be gunning for glory in Australia are not even ranked in the world and the public and media should be realistic in their expectations of the players’ final performances.
Godfrey Munroe, head of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), noted that his association’s eight-member squad (the largest contingent including the coach) has had reasonable preparations and it will be a good learning experience for all the participants which will exclude overseas based Chelsea Edghill due to her scholastic commitments. Munroe further stated that tennis’ prospect of medaling is somewhat unrealistic.
Coach of the boxing team, Serbert Blake, who will be joined by Terrence Poole (Technical Director) along with fighters Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis and Keeve Allicock in the Gold Coast, stated that his fighters had an excellent opportunity to go to a training camp in Mexico and their performances in the Central America and Caribbean games qualifiers were creditable, so his squad are confident of an excellent showing.
At the conference, representation from the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) was not present. The AAG will have the second largest contingent at the games, a total of six athletes and the coach Julian Edmonds. The athletes include, Troy Doris, Winston George, Emanuel Archibald, Leslain Baird, Natricia Hooper and Natrena Hooper.
Meanwhile, coach of the two member swimming team that consist of Andrew Folwer and Jamila Sanmoogan, Sean Baksh, expressed thanks that the teams will be arriving one week early in Australia to further prepare themselves. He posited that Sanmoogan just returned from a training stint in Colombia with that country’s national coach, and he would expect his swimmers to lower their personal best at the competition.
Other members of the team include Noel Adonis (Chef-d-Mission), David Fernandes (General Team Manager), Juanita Fernandes (Chaperone). Gokarn Ramdhani (Coach) and Narayan Ramdhani (athlete) are the Badminton representatives, while Paul Slowe (Coach) along with Ransford Goodluck (athlete) and Lennox Braithwaithe (athlete) will make up the Rifle team.
The squash team will consist of coach Ramon Chan-A-Sue (coach) and five athletes; Mary Fung-A-Fat, Taylor Fernandes, Sunil Seth and Jason-Ray Khalil.
Karen Pilgrim, vice-president of the GOA explained to the press that all the athletes have undergone their anti-doping talk and training to prepare them for the process which can be deemed to be very intrusive while in the continent of Australasia. (Calvin Chapman)

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