Archery Guyana brought the curtains down on its 2023 edition of the Seven Seas National Indoor Championships  on Sunday 30^th April, 2023 at the National Gymnasium.

 This event kicked off with Ranking rounds held from Tuesday, 23^rd to Friday 27^th April, 2023 at the same venue. 59 Archers representing various entities and clubs such as Archery Guyana, Pro-Archers Guyana, School of the Nations Archery Club, Qayyim Academy Archery and The Archery Guild participated in two divisions; namely, Barebow and Recurve. After registration closed, the Competitions Committee placed participants in various categories, which catered from Under-12 to Seniors 50+.

Overall, there were twelve categories, as the archers of all ages fought for the highest- ranking scores.

   There were some nail-biting moments as the final day progressed. There were several upsets and a few 1-arrow shoot-offs between semi-finalists and finalists, with the crowd and the various supporting clubs cheering their archers.

  Present at the Finals was Ms. Dileya Deonarine, Pharmacist/Brand Manager of the Seven Seas portfolio here in Guyana, who explained that their tailored range supports an active lifestyle focusing on the health of your bones, cartilage, muscles, and connective tissue. All these products start with Omega-3 & Glucosamine, with the addition of Chondroitin, Calcium and Turmeric to suit your specific Joint Care needs.

  One of their featured products: Joint Care Max, has been specifically formulated to support an active lifestyle. It supports Cartilage, Bones, Muscles and Connective Tissue to help in four important areas of Joint Care. It also contains our highest level of Glucosamine at 1500 mg.

  Their Perfect 7 Plus line’s Pharmacist/Brand Manager, Ms. Dileya Deonarine, explained that it brings together the benefits of a daily multivitamin and Omega-3 to help support the demands of our modern busy lifestyle. The Perfect 7 Plus Man aids the body in 7 key ways, supporting your muscles, heart, brain, bones, vision, metabolism and energy levels. The Perfect 7 Woman Plus aids the body in 7 key ways, supporting your brain, skin & nails, hair, vision, heart, hormonal activity.

   Since this brand was founded, Massy Distribution and Seven Seas have strived to provide customers with the best quality products, and have committed to putting ‘you’ at the centre of everything we do. This was tangibly demonstrated at the Finals, where every person present was presented with Haliborange Vitamin C effervescent sugar-free tablets in two flavours: classic lemon and black currant.

  Another feature of the Finals was the Inaugural BBQ Fund-raising event, which saw a significant number of persons who turned up to witness the exciting finals at the same time.

Thanks were expressed by Mrs. Vidushi Persaud-McKinnon, President of Archery Guyana, for Seven Seas collaboration as a competition sponsor. It was particularly spectacular to see the turnout of family members, friends, well-wishers, spectators and members of the public, who came out to experience the sport of Archery.

  The competition concluded with the Medal ceremony presided over by President of Archery Guyana, Mrs. Vidushi Persaud-McKinnon, and Secretary-General of Archery Guyana, Mr. Nicholas Hing. Ms. Elizabeth Mason was present to also award special prizes to the winners of their products. Medals were presented by very distinguished persons present throughout the event, and included Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal; Deputy Director of Sport and President of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation, Mr. Franklin Wilson; President of the Guyana Olympic Association, Mr. Godfrey Munroe; Attorney-at-Law Mr. Andrew Pollard S.C.; Secretary-General of the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Association, Mr. Roger Rogers; and former President of Archery Guyana, Mr. Mohamed Gamal Khan.

Medalists by events