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Roberts cops two silver medals at 6th Anthony Nesty Int. swim meet in Suriname
Dorado Speed Swim Club
Guyana’s leading male swimmer Niall Roberts copped two silver medals at the recently concluded 6th Annual Anthony Nesty International Open and Age Group Swim Meet, held in Paramaribo, Suriname January 22-24 and hosted by Club De Dolfijn.
Clubs affiliated to the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) were invited to participate.
According to a release from GASA, the age-grouping of the meet was unusual. “Unlike our accustomed groupings of 8-&-Under, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-17 and 18-&-Over (all but the latter used in the Goodwill and Carifta Swimming Championships) the age-groups were 6-&-Under, 7-8, 9-10 and Open.”
Dorado Speed Swim club was represented by four (4) swimmers; Niall Roberts (18 & over), Britany van Lange, Soroya Simmons and Athena Gaskin all 13-14 age group swimmers but they all competed in the “Open” category. Nicholas Fraser functioned in the capacity of Coach while a parent, Han Gaskin functioned as Team Manager.
Only Niall Roberts was able to secure medals, winning silver in the 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle boys’ open races.
In the 100m butterfly his 2nd place time was 1:00.20 behind his long-time friend and rival Suriname’s Marcelino Richaards who won in a time of 56.90 seconds.
In the 50m freestyle Roberts finished in a time of 24.50 seconds behind Suriname’s Gord Touw Ngie Tjouw who won in 24.09.
Roberts also participated in the boys open 100m freestyle where he finished 4th overall in 54.46 seconds. With these excellent results, Roberts single-handedly tied for second place in the Open Team rankings, with ten (10) points. On the distaff side, only Britany van Lange was able to make it to the finals in one of her races, the girls open 100m freestyle. She placed 5th overall in 1:06.63. Her team mates Athena Gaskin and Soroya Simmons finished 13th and 18th respectively out of a field of 25 swimmers.
All three girls also took part in the girls open 50m freestyle race with van Lange and Gaskin finishing in 6th and 7th place overall out of a field of 29 swimmers. As five (5) lanes were being used, they were just out of the qualifying number. Simmons placed 24th.
Simmons and van Lange finished 13th and 14th respectively in the girls open 200M individual medley out of a field of 19 swimmers, and 13th and 21st respectively in the 100M backstroke out of a field of 28 swimmers.
In the girls open 100M breast stroke Gaskin finished 12th out of the 16 athletes.
In a spirit of sportsmanship the three girls were allowed to participate in 4 x 100M medley relay and the 4 x 100 relay with the loan of a fourth swimmer by host club De Dolfijn. They finished in 5th and 6th place respectively in the two races.
The event was held at De Dolfijn’s Paramaribo facility and attracted over two hundred swimmers (200) from seven (7) teams including the large Pacoussine contingent from French Guyana and the Dorado team from Guyana.
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