Latest update December 4th, 2024 2:40 AM
Yaw won gold, Hooper silver at SA Youth C/ships
Tevin Garraway
– Garraway broke 22-year-old schools’ record
In our review of athletics for the year 2014, which was published yesterday, we inaccurately had Jason Yaw and Natricia Hooper winning bronze medals at South American Youth Championship in Cali, Colombia in November last year.
In fact, Yaw won a gold medal in a record-breaking time of 46.79, which we accurately indicated while Hooper ran 55.05 seconds to place second. Our bronze medal reference was a consequence of Yaw’s Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medal, which we correctly highlighted in our review.
Running Braves Athletics Club Coach, Julian Edmonds, told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that with a time of 55.05, Hooper has qualified for the World Youth Championships in Colombia, in July of this year. Edmonds informed that Avon Samuels and Jevina Sampson are also in line to compete at the event in Columbia since they both posted qualifying times.
In addition, in our review, we inadvertently omitted that Police Progressive Youth Club (PPYC) won the Fifth Edition of the Boyce & Jefford Track and Field Classic while the Guyana Defence
Natricia Hooper
Force won the Inter-Services Annual Athletics Championships (ISAAC), known as Joint-Service title, defeating the Guyana Police Force.
In our review, we also overlooked the historic performance of Police’s junior sprint ace, Tevin Garraway, who smashed Edmonds’ 22-year-old 100 metres record at the truncated 2014 National Schools’ Championships. Edmonds 1992 Under-20 Boys’ 10.6 seconds record was annulled with Garraway’s 10.5 seconds performance.
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