USUAL SUSPECTS top National Age Group Championships

As expected, undoubtedly the country’s top track stars excelled when the Athletics Association of Guyana hosted the Age Group Championships on Saturday at the Leonora Track and Field Facility.

In the mix was Chantoba Bright, who was the youth athlete of the year, dominated her signature events, the long jump and triple jump, while ace track star Compton Caesar and Kenisha Philips secured the sprint races.

Bright leaped to 5.84 metres (m) in the long jump girls 15-17 age group, while clearing 11.79m in the triple jump.

Meanwhile, Philips in the 15-17 age range, recorded 12.23 seconds (s) in the 100m and 24.73s in the 200m.

The sprinting sensation clocked the best performances in the 100m ahead of Onasha Rogers (12.29s) and Cassie Small (21.30s) who took second and third respectively, while Deshanna Skeete trailed her in the 200m in a time of 25.08s.

However, Skeete redeemed herself in the 400m, which was ran in a time of 59.39s.

Joanna Archer secured the 800m top-spot, as Claudrice Mckoy did in the 1500m.

The highlight of the day was 10.52s in which Caesar ran to win the boys 18 and over 100m, 0.4s ahead of Kevin Abbensetts.

In the 200m, it was the Guyana Police Force’s Winston Dummett that had to settle for second-place behind Caesar. Caesar clocked 21.65s to Dummett’s 22.33 seconds.

Daniel Williams ruled the boys’ 15–17 400m in 50.41s and took another gold in the high jump, where he cleared 1.90m. Dummett won the boys’ 18 and over 400m in 50.02s.

Also, in the middle distance, Anfernee Headecker picked up the boys’ 18 and over gold with a time of 1:55.70s, Samuel Lynch took third in 2:02.50s.