61st National Cycling, Swimming, and Track and Field Championships launched

The 61st National Cycling, Swimming, and Track and Field Championships will be held from November 26 to December 1st, 2023, and will be hosted by the Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers’ Union.
Launch of this 61st edition was held on Thursday 26th October 2023 at the National Track and Field Facility at Leonora, which would also be the base for the event from November 29.
The nation’s best student-athletes and teachers from the 15 districts will be competing for medals and bragging rights in swimming at the National Aquatic Centre, cycling at the National Park, and athletics at the National Track and Field Centre at Leonora.
Second Vice President of the Guyana Teachers Union, (GTU) Julian Cambridge, in brief remarks applauded the organization’s sponsorship to make this event possible.
“Banks DIH would have been with us from 60 years ago, some of us weren’t even born as yet. Your support would have been dynamic, and we want to say to you that we look forward for your support going forward. To Digicel, who would have been a partner and who would have been with us this year, we wanna say thanks for coming on board. To Massy, who is joining us for the first time, we wanna say thank you very much, and we do hope that this is not your only year you gonna be supporting us. And to Impresssions also, we wanna say thanks for coming on board,” he said.
Dr. Retish Tulram, DCEO – Technical of the Ministry of Education, in brief remarks at the launch emphasized the importance of this event towards the development of junior athletes to represent Guyana.
“This is an event that will showcase the talents, the abilities, the potentialities of our athletes who would have completed these sports at their district level. And here is where they will now compete at a national stage that will then scaffold them for another stage, whether international stage, regional stage. And you will agree with me (that), over the years, Guyana has been making the news as it relates to our local athletes participating and competing in all disciplines across the world,” he said.
On Monday, November 27, 2023, the National Park and the National Aquatic Centre will be packed with cyclists and swimmers as they compete, while all roads will lead to the National Track and Field Center from November 28, 2023 to December 1, 2023 for the athletics leg of the championships.
Digicel at the event revealed that they would be giving a scholarship to the star athlete of the tournament to attend the University of Guyana.
This year, the National Schools’ Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships are sponsored by Banks DIH Limited, Digicel Guyana, Massy Guyana and Impressions Inc.