Over 200 athletes for weekend trials
Guyana Chronicle
March 20, 2004
SOME 227 athletes have registered for this weekend’s Amateur Athletics Association of Guyana (AAAG) National Youth/Junior Championships at the Enmore Community Centre ground.
The athletes will be competing from some 17 clubs and schools today and tomorrow from 10:00 hrs.
Competition will come from Royal Youth Movement, Bedford Athletics, Silver Fox, Rising Stars, Police, Road Runners, Sapodilla and Belladrum from West Coast Berbice, Corentyne Zion, Upper Demerara, Dora Secondary, Running Hornets of Wales, Bygeval Multilateral, President’s College, South Georgetown Secondary, Annandale Secondary School and Region Nine-Rupununi, competing under the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU).
Athletes will compete in the Under-17 and Under- 20 divisions, with Under-17 boys’ and girls’ events ranging from 100m to 3000m for track and has the shot put, javelin and discus, long jump and high jump field events.
The Under-20 male events will be from 100m to 10 000m, and 100m to 5 000m for women. They will contest the shot put, javelin and discus, the long jump and high jump events.
Entries for the event closed on Wednesday at Olympic House.
The Rupununi athletes will be contesting the distance events that they prefer. At the recently concluded 44th Annual National Schools’ Track and Field, Swimming and Cycling Championships, sponsored by Banks Malta in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the GTU.
The athletes that trained in the capital city at the conclusion of the championship are favourites to cart off the longer distance events, while the sprinting and middle distance events are wide open.
The championships are in preparation for the Carifta Games that will be staged in Hamilton, Bermuda, from April 9 to 11.