UG claim inaugural Brij Parasnath National College Athletics title

The well-organised and trained University of Guyana athletics team proved too strong athletically and combined to celebrate an historic victory at the inaugural Brij Parasnath National College Athletics Championships, which were held at the Leonora National Track and Field Centre on Saturday.
There were many exciting duels and outstanding performances, but the UG athletes dominated most of the events with Osafa Dosantos and Ruth Sanmoogan declared Champion Male and Female Athlete, respectively.
And both Emanuel Archibald (UG) and Chantoba Bright (Mackenzie High) were

Emanuel Archibald

equally impressive in their respective specialty.
UG topped the 12 competing academic and training institutions and finished with 328 points. They were followed by Leonora Technical and Vocational Institute with 100; Sophia Training Centre, 77; New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) and Vrymen’s Erven Training Centre joint fourth with 63, Linden Technical Institute 43, Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) 40, Mackenzie High School 36, New Amsterdam Secondary 23, Georgetown American University 18, St Rose’s High 17 and President’s College.
Dosantos topped his male counterparts with 36 points. He won the shot put and discus, and was second in the high jump and javelin. Sanmoogan was the leading female with 38 points. She registered a unique triple with heart-warming victories in the 100, 200 and 400 metres and was second in the long jump.
Dosantos threw the iron ball 15.13 metres and triumphed over fellow UG teammate Tramaine Beckles, who heaved it 13.64m while Rich Skinner (CPCE) was third with a 12.98m throw.
Dosantos hurled the discus winning distance of 37.92m, but had to settle for second to Beckles in the javelin with a throw of 47.45m. Beckles won the gold with a 54.58m throw.
In the high jump, Dosantos cleared the bar at 1.70m for silver while Tortique Boyce of Leonora Technical Institute took the gold with 1.95m.
In the 100-metre dash, Sanmoogan was unchallenged and posted a winning time of 12.41 secs. She finished ahead of Leonora Technical Institute’s Tonya Rawlins (12.51s) and UG’s Kim Chan (13.40s).
However, Sanmoogan had to find an extra gear and reserves to stave off the challenge of Rawlins and field event specialists Bright who looked dangerous when she moved to front when they turned for the homestretch drive. Sanmoogan clocked 25.27 secs for the gold while Rawlins (25.66) and Bright (25.74) had to settle for the silver and bronze medals.
Sanmoogan (58.84 secs) was fully tested in the 400 metres, but prevailed over UG

Chantoba Bright

teammate Kenisha Prescott (59.85) and Rawlins (1:03.54).
Guyana’s latest sprint sensation Archibald missed the 100m dash, which was won by his UG teammate Owen Adonis in 10.87 secs. But the speedy Archibald showed his class with a comfortable victory in the 200 metres by cruising home in 21.49 secs ahead of Daniel Williams (21.59) and Adonis (21.83). He eased off the pace with 60 metres to go after he had blazed the first 100 and the curve to lead his rivals by over 10 metres as they straightened for the drive to the line. Archibald followed up with a heart-warming and fantastic leap of 8.07m to claim the gold from Anthony Carl Williams (Leonora TI) 7.00m and Ronardo Greene (Linden TI) 6.40m.
Bright shone brilliantly with gold-medal performances in the long jump and triple jump events. She registered 6.27 metres in the long jump and was engaged in a ding-dong tussle with Sanmoogan who had to accept the silver with a leap of 6.04m.
Bright was just too good in the triple jump, and claimed the gold medal with 12.23m.
She also won the high jump with a clearance of 1.67m and was the lone entrant and competed with the male athletes to register her mark. She would have gotten a bronze among the guys as she finished with equal height as third-place Jesse Thomas of President’s College and bettered Ronardo Greene of Linden TI (1.61m).
UG’s Tamar Charles scored double wins in the Women 1500m (6 min. 14.49 secs) and 3000m (13: 47.05) with CPCE’s Renita Pedro the silver medallist in both events with times of 6: 16.26 and 14: 17.05 respectively.
Harvey Daniel (Leonora TI) also copped double gold in the male 1500m (4 min. 42.40) and 5000m (17: 39.40). Cindy Fraser (New Amsterdam TI) took double gold in the shotput (8.68m) and discus (27.48m) and silver in the javelin (19.26m) to Mikeyla Skeete (Sophia Training Centre) who won the gold with 19.31 metres.