“Excellent” performance from athletics’ IGG team – AAG Executive

Guyana’s athletics team at the 54th edition of the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) over the past weekend, like so many track and field teams before them, managed to maintain their dominance in the discipline, cruising to a gold-medal finish.
Guyana accumulated 442 points over the course of the competition, 142 points ahead of the next best finisher, French Guiana, with 300 points. Suriname had to settle for third place with 213 points.
After receiving their medals and corresponding trophies at Sunday evening’s closing ceremony, Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Second Vice President (VP) Mayfield Taylor-Trim described the young team’s performance as excellent and credible.
“Athletics has been winning, as you know, almost all the time. We had a fairly young team; most of them would’ve been their first time in IGG, and I think their performance was credible. I think they performed excellent,” Taylor-Trim told Guyana Times Sports.

She went on to divulge, “Most of them went into this IGG with the intentions of getting qualified or coming close to be qualified for CARIFTA. So, we had a high level of performance. The performances were great.”
Touching on the training camps that the AAG facilitated prior to the games, Taylor-Trim noted that they paid off.
Quizzed on the training camps, she responded, “Yes, we had two weekends of training, and that was a success because we had a number of coaches that dealt with different areas: sprint, middle distance and long distance. So, they had that individual attention, and from that a lot of improvement we saw among the athletes.”
The AAG VP went on to respond to an inquiry about what can be improved for the athletics team as IGG moves to Suriname in 2026.
“I can’t right now,” she stated. “I think the coaches would be better able to respond to that in terms of what is expected, but from what I’ve seen, you know, I think their performance is credible. For 2026, what we can do is just do more, win more.”
Aside from the overall win, Guyana’s Quinola Burnette was hailed as the most outstanding female athlete, while a joint award on the male side saw Guyanese duo Kaidon Persaud and Ebo McNeil being rewarded.