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Chance on podium for pro-debut – Hooper excels at NCAA
Arinze Chance in action. (File photo)
Kaieteur News – Yesterday at the Weems Baskin Invitational at the University of South Carolina, Guyana’s Arinze Chance got off his professional career with a flying start to finish in second place in the men’s 400m final.
Chance, who is the holder of Guyana’s men’s national indoor 400m record, registered an impressive time of 46.62s to finish just behind Abayie Opuni who was one tenth of a second faster than the Guyanese.
The quarter-mile sprinter, who is aiming to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics needs to hit 44.9s to make the Olympic Standard but he is not too fazed since this is his first race of the season in which he chose to not go all out.
Guyana’s Joanna Archer of Texas Tech ran a personal best time.
Natricia Hooper in action.
Chance was happy to make the podium on his first professional race and gave thanks as usual. In an invited comment with Kaieteur Sport, he mentioned, “Thank God, family and close friends for encouraging me through the pandemic and for the first race in a while. Looking forward to more races because it’s definitely looking great for the next months to come. The splits were what I expected them to be. It was more a cautious race than anything else. Working on new race tactics is harder when you have a limited amount of races so I’m trying to execute the stuff from practice as well as I can in every race I compete in.”
Meanwhile, over in the NCAA, Guyana’s Natricia Hooper continued her impressive showing on the NCAA Division One Track & Field Circuit, with an impressive leap in the women’s triple jump that earned her second place.
Hooper, who outfits for the University of South Florida, jumped a personal best (PB) distance of 13.63m to make the podium at the FSU replays in Tallahassee on Friday.
In an invited comment with Kaieteur Sport, Hooper announced that it’s her, “First time competing in the outdoor season since 2018. I’m happy that I’m healthy and was able to compete and finished with a personal best.”
The student-athlete continued, “… with me doing a surgery in October and recovering in such a short period, I’m happy with the progress, but not satisfied because I know that I still a lot more work to be do.”
Meanwhile, Guyana’s Joanna Archer of Texas Tech ran a personal best time of 2minutes 8 seconds to finish third overall in the women’s 800m in the NCAA Texas Relays in Austin Texas.
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