UG crowned Brij Parasnath National College Athletics winner

Jul 23, 2018 Sports

Dos Santos, Sanmoogan, Archibald and Bright emerge top performers

The well-organised and trained University of Guyana (UG) athletics team proved too strong athletically and combined to celebrate an historic victory at the inaugural Brij Parasnath National College Athletics Championships (NCAC) which was held at the Leonara National Track and Field Centre on Saturday.

Front Row: Triumphant University of Guyana Team coach Mark Scott (second from left, front row) receives the BRIJ PARASNATH National College Athletics Championships Trophy from Brij Parasnath (second from right). Champion Male athlete Osafa Dos Santos is at extreme left while Champion Female Athlete Ruth Sanmoogan is at extreme right.

There were many exciting duels and outstanding performances but the UG athletes dominated most of the events with Osafa Dos Santos (UG) and Ruth Sanmoogan (UG) declared as Champion “Male and Female” athletes respectively.
Both Emmanuel Archibald (UG) and Chantoba Bright (Mackenzie High) were equally impressive in their disciplines.
UG topped the twelve competing academic and training institutions to finish with 328 points. They were followed by Leonora Technical and Vocational Institute with 100, Sophia Training Centre 77, New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) and Vryman’s Ervin Training Centre joint fourth with 63, Linden Technical Institute 43, Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) 40, Mackenzie High School 36, New Amsterdam Secondary 23, Georgetown American University 18, St Roses High 17 and President’s College last with 15 points.
Dos Santos topped his male counterparts with 36 points. He won the shot put and discus field events and was second in the high jump and javelin, while Sanmoogan was the leading female with 38 points. She registered a sprint-treble victory, while leaping to second place in the long jump event.
Dos Santos threw the iron ball 15.13 metres and triumphed over fellow UG teammate Tramaine Beckles who heaved it to 13.64m, while Rich Skinner (CPCE) was third with 12.98m.
Dos Santos hurled the discus for a winning distance of 37.92m but had to settle for second to Beckles in the javelin with a throw of 47.45m. Beckles won the gold with 54.58m.
In the high jump, Dos Santos cleared the bar at 1.70m for silver, while Tortique Boyce of Leonora Technical Institute took the gold with 1.95m.
In the 100-metre dash, Sanmoogan was unchallenged and posted a winning time of 12.41 secs. She finished ahead of Tonya Rawlins (Leonara TI) 12.51 and Kim Chan (UK) 13.40. Sanmoogan clocked 25.27 seconds in the 200m and 58.84 seconds in the 400m.
Guyana’s latest sprint sensation Archibald missed the 100 metres dash which was won his UG teammate Owen Adonis in 10.87 secs. But the speedy Archibald showed his class with a comfortable victory in the 200 metres gold by cruising home in 21.49 secs ahead of Daniel Williams (21.59) and Adonis (21.83). He eased off the pace with sixty metres to go after he had blazed the first 100 and the curve to lead his rivals by over ten metres as they straightened for the drive to the line.
In his specialty, Archibald scaled to 8.07m to claim the gold in the High Jump.

Ruth Sanmoogan, who won the sprint-treble, leaps during the girls’ long jump event which she finished with the Silver medal on Saturday.

Bright predictably won the high, long and triple jump events with leaps of 1.67m, 6.27m and 12.23m respectively.
UG’s Tamar Charles won the women’s middle-distance with a time of 6 min 14 seconds in the 1500m and 13minutes 47 seconds in the 3000m.
Cindy Fraser (New Amsterdam TI) took double gold in the shot put (8.68m) and discus (27.48m.