Five-time Mr Guyana title holder Kerwin Clarke has added a gold medal to his resume after using his well-defined physique to dominate his weight class yesterday at this year’s CAC Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships staged in the Dominican Republic.
Kerwin Clarke and Yannick Grimes pose with their hardware. They are flanked by Emmerson Campbell (left) and Guyana’s other representative, Darius Ramsammy
With his 175 pounds of striated muscle, Clarke obliterated the competition in the under 176-pound class of nine musclemen. In the overall display, he returned on a quest to capture a coveted pro card, but that was won by overall champion Yordan Feliciano of the Dominican Republic.
Clarke had earned a gold medal in this competition in 2016 in the same host nation.
Meanwhile, 2017 National Men’s Physique Champion Yannick Grimes snared a bronze medal in the under-170cm class in the Men’s Physique category in his CAC debut.
Emmerson Campbell, bronze and silver medalist at the last two championships, surprisingly failed to place in the top six in his Men’s Physique Class, the under 174cm, and will have to return to the drawing board to work on his strategy.
Guyana’s other representative at the meet, Darius Ramsammy, placed fifth in the 154pound-and-under class. The next CAC Championships, the 47th edition, will be staged next September in Colombia.
