Archery Guyana has successful outing at Heritage Games 2019

By Timothy Jaikarran

Once again Archery Guyana’s collaboration with the Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Ministry concluded with a very successful archery competition at this year’s Indigenous Heritage Games at the Everest Cricket Club Ground.

The competition followed the usual traditional archery format, with the archers(both male and female) coming from the various regions using their own equipment, together with those provided by Archery Guyana.
Speaking to Guyana Times Sport, Archery Guyana’s Head Coach, Nicholas Hing said, “This year we had more competition in terms of the enthusiasm; we had a lot of people competing to win, but the scores were higher last year. In terms of bettering the score, what we had hoped to do this year is to have each region do their own regional competition, whereby each region would send down their best to the Heritage Games and we would have a good competition as is done with the cricket, volleyball, etc.”
Hing also went on to state that the organisation tried to involve everyone in archery, “but if you want better results, we would need a higher quality of shooting, if the competitions are done regionally”. He noted that from next year he was hopeful that this format could be used before the commencing of the Heritage Games, so each region could compete and there was quality shooting. Hing added that the next step for Archery Guyana is an outdoor competition at Carifesta Ground and while the date has not been confirmed, he was optimistic about the tournament.
Archery Guyana is happy to have been a part of the Indigenous Heritage Games for the fifth year and looks forward to working with the Ministry in the coming years and in the future development of this most exciting sport.