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Triple threat Arinze Chance is back
National athlete, Arinze Chance is back on the track once again, after displaying his strength at The Bishops’ High School Inter-House Athletics Championship yesterday at the GCC Ground Bourda.
The championship saw Chance out-sprinting his rival Phillip Persaud, who was the former champion athlete in the U-16 sprint categories; he opened a gap on his opponents as Bolt usually do in his sprint races to register 10.84 seconds in the 100m ahead of Persaud and Andre Atherley. He {Chance} later returned to control the 200m and 400m.
Arinze Chance
Allen’s house, Darian Best won both 100m and 200m U-18 sprint races as his counterpart Andre Atherly was second in the former and Leshaun Jeffrey second in the latter.
Kheon Evans subjugated the open category of the sports in the 200,400 and 800m. Paul Tyrell was second in the 200m ahead of Brandon De Santos; Akeem Greene was rewarded second after a close finish with Evans in the 400m ahead of De Santos, third.
Dewar House won the March Pass; Vyphuis house took top honors in the Physical Display.
Wearn House prevailed to be the overall champions this year amassing 303 points ahead of Baskett’s 295 and Vyfhuis’272.
Meanwhile, Chance in an invited comment informed Kaieteur Sport that he will be smashing records at this year’s National Schools Championships slated for November, “I am training hard and planning to break the three sprint records at Nationals this year”, he said.
The winners and runner-ups of the track events are as follow:
1500m boys open – R. Singh, L. Bethune; 1500m girls open – I. Hick, K. Arthur
100m open boys – D. Best, B. De Santos; 100m girls open – C. Dowden, S. Ault
100m boys U-12 – T. Souvenir, K. Cort; 100m girls U-12 – R. Maughn, S. Grandison
100m boys U-14 – M. Morrison, N. Williams; 100m girls U-14 – A. Throne, O. George
100m boys U-16 – A. Chance, P. Persaud; 100m girls U-16 – K. Andrews, L. Garraway
100m boys U-18 – D. Best, A. Atherly; 100m girls U-18 – W. Layne, A. Wilkinson
800m boys open – K. Evans, B. De Santos; 800m girls open – T. Blanchard, T. Barton
800m boys U-18 – P. Tyrell, B. Garett; 800m girls U-18 – K. Booker, K. Arthur
800m boys U-16 – A. Jessemy, M. Fraser; 800m girls U-16 – C. Edghill, L. Saul
200m open boys – K. Evans, P. Tyrell; 200m girls open – K. Barker, C. Dowden
200m boys U-12 – T. Wilson, T. Souvenir; 200m girls U-12 – S. Grandison, M. Punch
200m boys U-18 – D. Best, L. Jeffrey; 200m girls U-18 – C. Jones, K. McKay
200m boys U-16 – A. Chance, P. Persaud; 200m girls U-16 – O. Rose, L. Garraway
200m boys U-14 – M. Morrison, N. Williams; 200m girls U-14 – A. Throne, O. George
400m boys open – K. Evans, A. Greene; 400m boys U-18 – P. Tyrell, F, Daley
400m girls U-18 – C. Jones, L. Saul; 400m boys U-16 – A. Chance, N. Gibbs
400m girls U-16 – O. Rose, K. Arthur; 400m boys U-14 – R. Gonsalves, J. Duncan
400m girls U-14 – A. Khan, N. Loncke; 400m boys U-12 – A. Somrah, K. Cort
400m girls U-12: S. Brandson, D. Grandison
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