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T&T’s Norris Gomez dethrones Ransford Goodluck as Caribbean’s top marksman

May 07, 2011 Sports

Three Guyanese shooters placed in the top ten but Trinidad and Tobago’s ace rifleman Norris Gomez emerged winner of the Grand Aggregate in the West Indies Fullbore Shooting championships Individual competition held in Antigua.
Last year’s champion Guyanese Ransford Goodluck finished third overall with grand aggregate of 464 points with 44 V-bulls, five points behind Gomez who record a grand total of 469 with 39 V-bulls in the two-day competition held for the first time at the Antigua Rifle ranges over 300, 500 and 600 yards.
Trinidadian Justin Lall was second with 467.33 while Serge Bissonnette of Bermuda copped the fourth place with 463.36 and fifth was Jamaican Dennis Nelson with 463.29.
National captain Mahendra Persaud was sixth overall with 461.35 while former national champion Lennox Braithwaite was two places behind in eighth place with 457.32.
National vice captain Dylan Fields placed 14th with 450.32, Richard Fields 19th with 442.23 and Inspector Dane Blair 441.22 in 20th position.
Guyanese ‘O’ Class shooter Peter Persaud was second in that category with 433.23 finishing behind Thomas Greenaway of Antigua who recorded 451.29.
Former national captain Paul Archer and Lt. Col. Terry Stuart placed third and fourth respectively in ‘O’ Class.
The shooters will now turn their attention to the team match with Guyana set to defend the Anchor Cup regional short range (300, 500 and 600 yards) shooting supremacy today against stiff opposition expected from the Trinidadians, Jamaica, Bermuda, Barbados and the host nation Antigua/Barbuda.

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