Amateur boxing team for Barbados event

Aug 24, 2011 Sports

A team of three amateur boxers and two officials will be in Barbados this weekend to participate in a boxing card fixed for Saturday on that island.
The team, which comprise of Steffon Gouveia (light weight), Lawred Stewart (middle weight) and Simone Hoyte (middle weight) along with Manager, GABA Vice President Eustace Cuffy and Coach Carl Franklin, will leave on Friday and return on Sunday.
They were invited by the Barbados Amateur Boxing Association, who has agreed to cover the expenses of the Guyanese team.
Gouveia of the Harpy Eagle Gym is the most experienced of the trio and will seek to use the overseas opportunity to continue sharpening his skills as he focuses on future glory, including the London 2012 Olympics. Stewart will also seek to impress and lone female, Hoyte, will also want to make a mark. Both are from the FYF gym.
GABA president Steve Ninvalle has always been keen on exposing his fighters as much as possible in their ‘Road to London’ Programme and has been making every effort to ensure they are adequately exposed. Several overseas engagements have been planned and GABA has been soliciting funding for same and is continuing to seek the intervention of corporate Guyana.
Recent performances by the boxers including Gouveia and Imran ‘Magic’ Khan among others would vindicate the efforts of Ninvalle and his team at GABA and it is hoped that Guyana can produce another Olympic medal in the sport that has brought this country its lone Olympic success through Michael Parris in Moscow in 1980.

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