Initial Records for Arrowhead League finalised

May 05, 2022 Sports

– Running Brave, GDF set the standards

The inaugural Arrowhead Track and Field League which has had two of its five phases completed at the Leonora Track and Field Facility, has finalised the meet records for all the events contested.
Organiser of the event, Treiston Joseph, told Kaieteur Sport that hosting the event is an amazing experience. The meet sanctioned by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) unfolded on April 30 and May, 1 and has three more days of action to behold.

Anisha Gibbons

Joseph was very appreciative of the assistance he received from Corporate Guyana, who all realised the importance of a meet as such.
The fastest Man and Woman at the meet were Guyana Defence Force (GDF) members, Akeem Stewart and Dr. Ruth Sanmoogan, who clocked 10.40s and 11.99s, respectively, in the 100m run.
CARIFTA athlete Shamar Horatio, competing out of Ramos James’ club clocked 21.50s in the Men’s 200m, while another CARIFTA team member, Keliza Smith, sketched her name into the record books with 23.99s in the Women’s 200m. Smith competed out of the Running Brave Track and Field Club.
Running Brave’s Simeon Adams set 48.28s as the meet record in the Men’s 400m while CARIFTA 400m U-17 Female silver medalist, Narissa McPherson (Running Brave), put 57.09s on the clock for the Women’s 400m meet record.

Akeem Stewart

The Men’s 800m meet record was set in fine fashion by GDF’s Devaun Barrington who ran 1:55.84s, while CARIFTA Gold Medalist Attoya Harvey, went about her record setting performance with a classy run off 2:16.12s for her club, Running Brave.

GDF’s Mark Nicholson won the Men’s 1500m to set a meet record of 4:11.89s.
Field Events Record Holders
GDF’s Leslain Baird, Joshua Jones and Mark Jhalu became the record holders for the Men’s Javelin, Discus and High Jump, respectively. Baird returned from injury to set a best throw of 70.06m in the Javelin, Jones threw a best of 38.05m in the Discus and Jhalu leaped a best of 2.10m in the High Jump.

Devaun Barrington

Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Carl Williams also leaped his way into the record books with a jump of 7.29m in the Men’s Long Jump.
For the Women, there was no surprise when double CARIFTA Javelin Gold Medalist, Anisha Gibbons, won her pet event at the League, but what was immediately noticeable for the Ruralites athlete was her improved distance.

Keliza Smith

She set a record at the League of 42.69m to improve on her CARIFTA best throw of 42.54m which won her the Girls U-20 Gold just under a month ago.
In the other Women’s field events, GDF stomped their authority all over the record books. Ameka Eastman won the Discus with a best throw of 35.03m, Dr. Sanmoogan won the Long Jump with a leap of 6.10m and Natrena Hooper was victorious in the Triple Jump with 12.80m.
Meanwhile, the Men’s 5000m and Triple Jump along with the Women’s 1500m, 3000m and High Jump will be contested at the third Meet. According to the organizer, the next Meet is scheduled for June and the date will be announced shortly.

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