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Headquarters capture Police Inter-Division Athletics Championships again
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Administration), Balram Persaud (centre) joins Headquarters yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre at Leonora as they celebrated winning the Police Inter-Divsion Athletics Championships.
By Edison Jefford
Headquarters captured the Guyana Police Force Inter-Division Track and Field title yesterday for an unprecedented 18th consecutive year, ensuring that the Championship spends another weekend in the lockups at its Eve Leary base.
Headquarters handcuffed the title they have held captive since 1997 after amassing 487 points on the final day of the competition. ‘A’ Division was second with 345 points while ‘C’ Division was third with 276 points and ‘B’ Division fourth with 148 points.
Guyana also arrested the ‘A’ Class or international title, finishing with 402 points ahead of Twin Island Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, with 102 points for second as St. Vincent and Grenadines finished third with 41 points.
Julio Sinclair and Keith Roberts shared the ‘A’ Class Champion Male award with 26 points each while Kevin Bayley was Runner-up with 20 points. Trinidad’s Nikita Thomas was the Champion Overseas Female with Sheldon Mason taking the male prize.
Emmanuel Sancho took home the Champion Male Youth Club title with Joanna Archer claiming the female award. Shion Boyer, Tiffany Carto and Tandika Burgess shared the Champion Female award. Yoel Benjamin was Champion Male ‘B’ Class with Clarence Greene as Runner-Up.
The sprint events certainly ignited the sparsely populated National Track and Field Centre venue at Leonora yesterday with Police sprint ace, Winston George, returning to put on a show after his training stint in the United States of America.
George blazed to 10.01 seconds in the 100m Male Invitational race ahead of Akeem Stewart, who ran 10.2 seconds and Tyrell Peters (10.9s). George returned in the 200m to win in the steamy 21.0 seconds ahead of Trinidad’s Che Hart (21.7s) and Roberts (22.5s) respectively.
The sprint rivalries continued when Peters won the 100m Youth Club Male in 10.7 seconds ahead of Emmanuel Sancho and Ronald Gobin, who posted 11.1 and 11.3 seconds in that order. Joshua Hamilton clocked 10.4 seconds to win the ‘A’ Class race ahead of Hart (10.8s) and Roberts (11.1) respectively.
Tevin Garraway won the ‘B’ Class 100m Men for Headquarters in 10.5 seconds as Linton Mentis placed second in 10.7 and Owen Adonis third in 10.8 seconds. ‘C’ Division’s Trevor Benn led the way in the Senior Officers 100m race in 10.8 seconds ahead of Dennis Thomas (11.4) and Derwin Eastman (11.8s).
Former national schools’ champion, ‘C’ Division, Deja Smartt sprinted to 11.7 seconds to win the 100m female race ahead of Headquarters’ Leota Babb (12.6) and Onika Eastman (13.3). Babb got on top of the podium in the Female Senior Officers 100m race with 12.8 seconds as Akeela Alves (13.0s) and Nadine Rodrigues (13.3s) completed a clean sweep for Headquarters.
Kezia Bess won the Youth Club Girls 100m in 12.3 seconds ahead of Jevina Sampson (12.5) and Archer (13.5). Carto won the 400m Female in 1:04.4 from Cindy Fraser (1:09.0) and Keiandra Gordon (1:14.3) respectively.
Arinze Chance blazed to an impressive 48.1 seconds in the 400m ‘B’ Class with Kareem Punch second in 48.6 seconds and Winston Dummett third in 49.9 seconds.
Boyer won the ‘A’ Class 1500m Female race in 5:34.5 with Dellie Williams (5:56.2) second and Melissa Byass (6:10.6) third. Archer won the Youth Club event in 5:24 from Tabitha Bowman (5:34.6) and Bess (6:54.4).
Rondel Austin won the Male Youth club 1500m race in 4:32.4 from Delon Bagot (4:50.0) and Moses Best (4:52.6). Bayley jogged to victory in the 1500m males in 5:36.7 ahead of Grivon Grant (5:40.2) and Jayon Johnson (5:46.7) respectively.
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