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Morgan aims to repeat as overall Champion
Corentyne-based lifters, confident of doing Guyana proud on debut
By Franklin Wilson
Reigning Caribbean overall Best Lifter and Champion of the 82.5kg class Randolph Morgan is relishing the challenge that would be posed by all and sundry at the upcoming 4th Annual International Powerlifting Federation (IPF), North American Powerlifting Federation (NAPF) and Caribbean Islands Bench Press & Powerlifting Championships at Princess Hotel which commences on Friday.
Tariq Immamdeen
Wazeem Immamdeem
Morgan, who on debut at the said Championships last year in the US Virgin Islands took the opposition by storm, is aiming for a repeat this year and what better place, than on home soil.
Speaking with Kaieteur Sport during training on Monday evening at Studio 2000, his home gym, a confident Morgan stated that while he is not underestimating any of the athletes that he would be competing against, he is of the view that at the end of the competition he would be standing again as the winner of both his category and the overall.
Anis Ade Thomas
Egbert Jackson
“I have been training very hard for this championship; training is an everyday thing for me. Being a champion is not easy as everyone else wants to beat the champ so that motivates me even more to do well.”
When questioned on the level of training he was going through, Morgan promptly stated that it was just supplementary since most of the hard work would have been done in the earlier weeks.
The Guyana Police Force Officer emphasised that he always aims for success in everything that he does and this is certainly not different. Morgan said he is aiming to break the Bench Press record at these championships.
Up in the Ancient County of Berbice in the Corentyne, the Total Fitness Gym, home to three of the exciting lifters on Team Guyana has been a hive of activity.
Speaking with Kaieteur Sport, Coach of the three athletes Wazeem Immamdeen, Tariq Immamdeen and Anis Ade Thomas, Egbert Jackson who is also the Assistant Coach of the Guyana team said that training has been progressing quite satisfactorily and he is confident his charges and Team Guyana will do well.
“The guys are in better shape than before and I expect them to do well. Their excelling this weekend will set the platform for even greater things for them. They guys have shown the discipline and commitment and it is now time to reap the rewards of hard work.”
Jackson, a former Masters athlete who competed in the 100m, 200m and 400m races, last competed at the South American Masters Championships in 1992 which was held in Venezuela where he equaled the 100m record in the 35-39 age group 100m and also won the 200m.
He has been in the business of Coaching in Powerlifting ever since 1994 and stated his satisfaction with the level of work put in by the Immamdeen brothers and Thomas. Jackson also said that he is looking forward to Team Guyana doing well individually and collectively.
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