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Fitness Express/Banks DIH Limited sponsors Powerlifting Seniors Championship
When the curtains came down on what could only be considered an exciting day of keenly
Male best lifter
Hardat Tarson.
contested powerlifting action, thanks once again to the kind and timely sponsorship from steadfast supporter of powerlifting in Guyana Mr. Jamie Mc Donald, of fitness Express and Beverage giants Banks DIH Limited, some of the newer names in the sport emerged to the fore as the outstanding lot.
On a day when most of the big names in the sport were either rested or injured, new faces were allowed to emerge from the shadows cast by those big names, but the day belonged to primarily to Chloe Hunter competing in the 57kg female weight class and her male counter Hardat Tarson competing in the 83kg weight class.
Sculpted like a body builder Chloe Hunters performance was so dominant that she only needed 4 of a possible 9 lifts to amass a total of 392.5kg and a Wilks point of 474.454 to emphatically dispose of her opposition. On the other side Hardat made light work of the lifters in his class on his way to a powerlifting total of 745kg and Wilks point of 510.623 in the process taking male best lifter overall.
There was a major tussle between Daniel Sooklall from Hardcore Gym (Rosignol) with a total of 472.5kg (Wilks point 423.549) and Navindra Tamasar of Elite Fitness Gym (New Amsterdam) with a total of 475 (421.515 Wilks point) for the crown of the 59kg class and if that wasn’t enough the masters wanted to show that age is never a factor. Frank Tucker moved a total of 495kg and a Wilks Point of 309.375 to claim 3rd place in the 105kg class, while Colin “Mr. Clean” Chesney from the Mining Town of Linden totaling 840kg (483 Wilks) went head to head with Farouk Abdool of Hardcore Gym with a total of 820kg (Wilks 473.96) and in the process muscling his way to a new national bench press record
Female Best Lifter
Chloe Hunter
of 230kg erasing the mark previously held by Big John Edwards at 227.5kg.
Closing off the day in his own unique quiet way was Rawndel Clementson who with an intermittent grunt of “what would Jesus say” posted a total of 705kg (391.416 Wilks) all the while lifting unequipped.
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