Trinidad and Tobago’s Dr Varma Rambarran has dethroned Guyanese Ransford Goodluck to become the new West Indies Fullbore Shooting Council/West Indies Fullbore Shooting Championships’ Individual Champion, following three days of intense marksmanship at the Tucker Valley Rifle Range in Chaguaramas, Republic of Trinidad & Tobago.
New ‘King of the Caribbean Range’, T&T’s Dr. Varma Rambarran
Dr. Varma Rambarran outshot all competitors who challenged for the top spot and bragging rights. They came from Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada and England, apart from his homeland and from Guyana. Over the three days of this competition, Dr. Rambarran dropped a single point, thereby creating a new WIFBSC record.
Some 69 participants shot at the 300, 500 and 600 yards’ ranges on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and when the last shot was fired and the scored were tallied (electronic targets being used for the first time at these c/ships) Dr. Rambarran had recorded a 100% performance in tallying 404 out of a possible 405 points in the X Class.
Some distance behind in second place was Canada’s Bruce MacDonald on 393 points, followed by Antigua and Barbuda’s Anderson Perry on 392. Guyanese shooters Lennox Braithwaite (392) and Ransford Goodluck (392) ended in respective sixth and seventh places overall, but were in third and fourth positions for the Caribbean, behind Rambarran and Perry. The Vs counts for the shooters were not readily available.
Meanwhile, given that the Tucker Valley Rifle Range in Chaguaramas does not have a Long Range (900 and 1000 yards) facility, there will be two Short Range matches, one today and the official WIFBSC match tomorrow.
Guyana would remain the Long Range champions, but would be going all out to reclaim the Short Range championship — which is currently held by Barbados, and which is the most coveted trophy among the Caribbean marksmen and women.
Vice-Captain of the Guyana team, Dylan Fields, and Sherwin Felicien were expected to join Captain Mahendra Persaud and the rest of the Guyanese shooters yesterday in the twin-island republic. They did not participate in the Individual championships.
