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Forde, Morgan show excellent form
– Guyana seems stronger this year
By Rawle Welch
The recent form shown by leading local distance athletes Cleveland Forde and Alika Morgan has raised hopes that Guyana stands a strong chance of winning both international categories at this year’s first leg of the 7th South American 10K Classic Run scheduled to be staged on October 25.
Cleveland Forde
The duo produced outstanding performances to capture the Antigua & Barbuda Prime Minister’s 10K Race recently and should start as strong favourites to grab the top prizes in this year’s edition.
Making her return after injury forced her out of competition for sometime, Morgan career seems to be back on track and with her stable mate Jevina Straker showing steady improvement the two could prove to be a formidable force for any foreign opposition.
Hampered in the past by the lack of another competent partner, always a crucial aspect of long distance running, Morgan should now have the confidence to use different strategies during the race. She was merely a one-woman opposition against the foreign contingent, but all that could change this year with the presence of young Straker, who has impressed all during her short career.
Starting out as a middle distance athlete, who dominated her peers, Straker has now become the lone threat to Morgan’s reign and the two though coming out of the same camp could provide all the excitement if the Brazilians do not compete.
With the Athletic Association of Guyana’s reluctance to choose a national team, rather leaving it up to the athletes to pick themselves, it will be a battle for supremacy to snatch the top spots and ensure selection for the other two legs in Suriname and Panama.
Alika Morgan
The Men’s segment seems to be clearer with the current form of Forde, who has repeatedly beaten the best in the Caribbean this year including St. Vincent & the Grenadines Pamenos Ballantyne, Trinidadians Curtis Cox and Richard Jones along with compatriots Kelvin Johnson and Lionel D’Andrade.
The positive side of the story is that D’Andrade and Johnson have also been in good form since moving to T&T and the three of them combined should form an unbeatable team.
Jevina Straker
Apart from the Brazilians, if they show up, the only other threat to Morgan’s dominance could come from T& T’s Shermin Lasaldo, who earlier this year cruised to victory in the Caricom 10K race.
Meanwhile, it was announced during the launching that the race will return back to the old route which saw the runners move off from in front of the YMCA on Thomas Road proceed along Carifesta Avenue continue along the Rupert Craig Highway into Clive Lloyd Drive and finish at the starting point.
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