1st South American Youth Games...Yaw strides to bronze in 400m, qualifies for 200m final

1st South American Youth Games…Yaw strides to bronze in 400m, qualifies for 200m final

Sep 29, 2013 Sports

Ramraj & Opti clinch bronze in Int. Badminton doubles

By Franklin Wilson in Peru
Guyana increased its medal haul by two to 7 (1 silver 6 bronze) on the penultimate day of competition at the inaugural South American Youth Games (1 SAYG) here in Lima, Peru, yesterday. Sprinter Jason Yaw strolled to bronze in the 400m final while on the Badminton Court, Ambika Ramraj teamed up with Soren Opti of Suriname to take the bronze medal in the International Mixed Doubles competition.

Coach Gokarn Ramdhani flanked by Int. Mixed Pair bronze medalists, Ambika Ramraj (Guyana) and Soren Opti of Suriname.

In the 3000m final, Andrea Foster finished fifth out of six athletes in 11:03.6s, this event was won by Estefany Guacho of Ecuador who ran at blistering pace in 10:17.7s. Gabriela Lamb of Brazil (10:19.4) and home girl Elizabeth Ortiz (10:20.8) were 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Foster was with the pack up until three laps but thereafter, the top three along with Paulina Burgos of Chile opened up a gap on Foster and Oriana Rozo of Venezuela that increased with every stride.
Yaw, looked impressive in the first 100 meters of the 400 and should have paced himself better over the next 200m before increasing the speed over the final 100. He however tried too much in the middle of the race and was struggling at the end to the extent that Venezuela’s Kelvis Padrino edged him for the silver just before the line.
Brazilian Anderson Cordeiro crossed the line in 48.14 running out of lane 3, Padrino’s time was 48.91s while Yaw achieved 48.98s was outside his personal best. Yaw went into to this final with the best time of the six athletes, 47.76s.
Seconds after the 400m ended, Yaw came down with an upset stomach which resulted in the sprinter having to receive medical attention. It was felt that as a result of this he would have not been able to contest the 200m semis but the 16-year-old showed great courage and determination by insisting that he would be fine.
About 30 minutes later, he was back on the track to contest the 200m semifinals and was drawn in heat 2. When it ended, Yaw was 3rd in 22.64s, this performance has earned him a spot in today‘s final and he has promising to aim for another medal to end on a high.
Tirana Mitchell was also scheduled to contest the 200m but suffered a left hamstring injury on Friday in the 100m semis which cut short her participation at these Games.

Badminton
Fourteen-year-old Ambika Ramraj teamed up with Soren Opti of Suriname to contest the Under-19 International Mixed Doubles, their exploits together was good enough for the bronze medal in a competition that involved 10 countries.
Ramraj’ countryman, Narayan Ramdhani teamed up with Florencia

National Pride! Jason Yaw (right) poses with the with Anderson Cordeiro (Brazil) and Venezuela’s Kelvis Padrino after they collected their respective medals.

Bernatene of Argentina.
In the first round, Ramdhani and Bernatene lost in a three sets entertainer to Brazilian Igor De Oliveira and Chilean Andrea Montero, 21-16, 18-1, 14-21.
Ramraj and Opti of Suriname drew a bye to the quarter-finals and the pair went on to defeat Jose Guevara of Peru and Maryi Ordonez of Colombia – 23-21, 21-11, 21-18 to earn a semifinal place.
They were not successful in getting past Serafin Zayas of Argentina and Lohaynny De Oliveira of Brazil, going down in straight sets, 21-12, 21-14.

Weightlifting
Darren Williams was down to contest the 77kg division last evening, while his teammate Sheriah Melville will compete in the 63+ class today, the final day of competition. On the opening night, Denoila Bristol competing in the 53kg category, ended 5th with personal best lifts in the Snatch as well as the Clean and Jerk.

Medals Table
Gold Silver Bronze

Anderson Cordeiro of Brazil is triumphant in the 400m final, Guyana’s Jason Yaw (2nd right) who took bronze, was edged for the silver by Kelvis Padrino of Venezuela.

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