Another Powerlifting star is born

Jul 17, 2013 Sports

Gumendra Shewdas is currently listed as world #1 Sub-Jnr.

Berbice is continuing to churn out sportsmen of world class quality in the realms of cricket and most recently, powerlifting.

Gumendra Shewdass (left)

The latest to join those ranks is teenage powerlifter Gumendra Shewdas whose success would have been predicted by President of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF), Peter Green who did so, some two years ago.
Eighteen year-old athlete and recent Pan American Gold medalist, Gumendra Shewdas, who hails from the Town of Corriverton in the Ancient County of Berbice, in only his second international outing, captured Gold in the 53kg Sub-Junior class and has now established himself as the hot favorite and No. 1 leading into the World Sub-Juniors/Juniors Championships which is set for August 25 – September 1, 2013 in Killeen, Texas, USA.
The International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) has recently released the lineup of seven (7) Sub-Juniors who will compete for the World title. These are the world’s best Under-18 lifters, their best totals achieved within the last twelve months have been released and Guyanese Shewdas is top of that list.
Shewdas’ old total 477.0kgs posted in February of this year prior to his participation in the Pan American Championships has improved by his Pan American total of 497.5kgs. This achievement against the odds indicates that he is on track to accomplish what fellow Guyanese, Winston ‘Little Master’ Stoby achieved at the World Masters Championships.
With the federation having exhausted its funds on the Caribbean and Pan American Championships, significant corporate financing is needed to make Shewdas’ dream a reality.
He is in his last year as a Sub-Junior and is poised to bring glory to his country and hometown. His expenses have been tagged at some USD $1700 (airfare, meals, accommodation, competition and drug testing fees).
Shewdas has also become the second athlete from Guyana to be selected for the International WADA ADAMS whereabouts programme requiring him to be on 24 hours notice for International out of competition/in competition testing following in the steps of Randolph Morgan.
Powerlifting remains the only discipline in Guyana whose athletes are on the WADA Drug testing programme known as ADAMS. No lifter has been tested positive to date.

Following is the starting lineup for the World Sub-Juniors:
Name                                        Country        Total
Gumendras Shewdas        Guyana           477.5kgs – (Best recently 497.5kgs)
Dalton La Coe                        USA                 455.0kgs
Azamat Asultanov             Russia            442.5kgs
Kazuma Arai                     Japan               435.0kgs
Alexei Kulakov                   Russia            432.5kgs
Tetsuharu Katsuta            Japan               405.0kgs
Erick Aguilar              Ecuador          377.5kgs

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