Following the conclusion of their competition on Sunday, all the members of the Guyanese Weightlifting team at the Pan American Games 2023 are quite pleased with their returns.
On one hand, Krystol Chanderban raised her mark some 20kg, while on the other, Shammah Noel was forced to compete in a higher weight class and still managed to hold his own.
Summing up their performances at the Games in Santiago Chile, Coach Sean Cozier expressed his elation at their performances.
“Of course I am happy because of the improvements of both of them! You know, they have been performing good for quite some time when they go out to international meets; and you know, it’s very important every time they go out that we try improve, so that they gain experience and they can probably (place) in other meets,” Cozier shared with media operatives in Chile.
In relating Noel’s story of competing in a higher weight class, Coach Cozier explained how experience at the international level can be helpful. “Most time when we go out, we gain a lot of experience. Because it’s an Olympic cycle, actually Shammah Noel was at a disadvantage, because the category that he normally lifts in, that wasn’t available here, because normally you have 8 categories in most male and female divisions. And what happened, they took out like three of the divisions for this competition here, going forward to the Olympics, so he had to lift in a higher class, where he was at a disadvantage in terms of weight,” Cozier explained.
“So, he weighed like 77 probably 78 kilos, and the class is 89Kg, and he did pretty well in terms of lifting in the higher division,” Cozier added.
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