Latest update March 24th, 2025 7:05 AM
Chance set for debut this weekend
Arinze Chance during a training session.
Kaieteur News – March 26 and 27, 2021 will forever remain special for Guyana men’s 400m indoor record holder, Arinze Chance, as he is set to make his professional debut then at the Weems Baskin Invitational that will run off on Friday & Saturday at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Chance is upbeat to make his debut but he noted that it is just the first step on his road to glory. He divulged with Kaieteur Sport that, “Right now I’m working really hard in practice and training even harder in the weight room. I’m trying to get as many meets lined up because with constant competition I believe I will move from strength to strength. Any and every meet that I anticipate will have good competition, I intend to be there.”
The recent University of South Carolina graduate who majored in Global Studies made his intentions clear to Kaieteur Sport he doesn’t want to talk much about the meet before but rather let his performances do the speaking. And, with the Tokyo Olympic just around the corner, he will be digging deep to make the 44.9s Olympic Standard. His personal best (PB) in the 400m outdoors is 46.05s when he last ran the event in 2019.
Among the track meets Chance is eyeing to prepare and qualify for the summer Olympics include Guyana’s Senior Championships that is scheduled for April 17 & 18 at the National Track & Center on the West Coast of Demerara and the South America Senior Championship that is slated for Argentina in the Month of May.
The sprinter has broken the national indoor quarter-mile record twice in the past two years, however, he has not competed Outdoors for the same time period.
The 2019 Aliann Pompey Invitational (API) men’s 400m champion is not fazed by that and declared that he will achieve his goal, “The Goal is just to run fast. Every race I’ll be trying to run fast. It’s a year for fast running and I want to be present.”
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