Category: Sports

– Lewis, Harris and Alfred to feature By Reuben Stoby In what would be an absolute treat for local boxing fans (if it ever materialises), three of Guyana’s most successful boxers, including the country’s first world champion, Andrew ‘Six Heads’ Lewis, would make up a star studded card to be staged in April at the Princess Hotel. Guyana Times International Sport understands that the proposed card is the brainchild of overseas-based promoter Seon Bristol and would also feature fighters such as former WBA Junior Welterweight Champion, “Vicious” Vivian Harris and…

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– Country prevails over City in amateur segment By Avenash Ramzan Referee Eon Jardine (left) and Barbados’ top promoter Sam Layne with the first Regional Commonwealth champion Miguel Antoine Barbadian Miguel Antoine created history last Friday, February 25th, when he became the first man to lift the Regional Commonwealth title by defeating Guyanese Mark Austin by a unanimous decision in their junior welterweight clash in the February staging of “Friday Night Fights” ProAm boxing card. Both fighters weighed in at 140lbs, but Antoine was more muscular in build and more…

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With the mandate coming from the President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Henry Greene, a steering committee has been established in Linden with the aim of resuscitating the sport there. The committee was formed last Thursday at the Linmine Constabulary Hall during a meeting which was attended by Senior Vice President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), Harold Hopkinson; Junior Vice President, Dr Pradeep Balram; and Public Relations Officer, Patrick Triumph. Tasked with the responsibility to resuscitate the game in the mining town are Lethem Wilson, Robert…

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BY REUBEN STOBY Sport Minister Dr Frank Anthony has lauded the collaborative efforts of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) and the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) to promote the sport of boxing, and noted that those efforts have resulted in the further development and promotion of the fistic art. The two boxing authorities have been teaming up to promote a monthly boxing event dubbed ‘Fight Night Guyana ProAm’, which has seen more than a hundred bouts since its debut card in February 2010. The event is also televised…

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In the battle of athleticism, creativity and youth versus decades of experience and skill, 16-year-old multi-disciplinary athlete Jason Ray Khalil dominated spritely veteran competitor Brendon Mounter to win the Bounty Farm Mash Squash Handicap tournament yesterday at the Georgetown Club. Khalil defeated Mounter in straight games 15/10, 15/11 to win the main draw of the tournament, while Ben Mekdeci got past squash mom Lydia Fraser in a three-game thriller (15/13, 6/15, 15/10) to win the Category A title. Khalil, who also helped his school team, Marian Academy, in the semi-final…

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Nicholas Ali and Ashley Khalil have emerged the top male and female contestants respectively in the Under-19 category of the National Sports Commission’s (NSC) Junior Mashramani Badminton tournament, which concluded at the weekend at the Queens College courts. Ali defeated Avian Rodrigues 21-13, 21-17 in the final, after breezing past Avinash Odit 21-4, 21-7 in the semi-final. Rodrigues was stretched to the limit in his semi-final encounter with Narayan Ramdhani, the match ending 21-14, 19-21, 21-12. In the third-place playoff, Ramdhani prevailed over Odit 21-18, 21-18. In the Girls’ Under-19…

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Kenya again appeared totally out of their depth and posed no challenge to Pakistan at Hambantota, Collins Obuya’s deathor- glory 47 being the only highlight for them as Shahid Afridi helped himself to 5 for 16 in a massive 205-run win, Pakistan’s biggest win in World Cups and the eighth largest overall. Four of Pakistan’s batsmen cashed in to raise half-centuries and set up a total of 317 for 7 after a brief wobble against the new ball and Kenya made little effort to mount a serious challenge in their…

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World renowned Canadian-Guyanese karate personality, Master Frank Woon-A-Tai, 8th dan, recently announced the formation of his new world karate organization, the International Karate Daigaku (IKD). Daigaku means university or college in Japanese. The announcement came on the 30th Anniversary of his first karate dojo in Canada. The new organisation has strong West Indian roots. Well known for his development of karate in Guyana, the Caribbean region, and Canada, Master Woon- A-Tai, a native of Georgetown, is closely associated with the Caribbean Karate College (CKC) as president and, until recently, the…

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Going into his fifth and final World Cup tournament, West Indies and Guyana’s prolific batting star Shivnarine Chanderpaul says there is still some unfinished business he has to attend to. There is something he says he would like to take care of in his final World Cup appearance Interview By Nagraj Gollapudi Shivnarine Chanderpaul For a batsman with a disjointed stance, which he seems to be forever correcting, Shivnarine Chanderpaul is simple when it comes to words. Much straighter. Briefer. To the point. Only Sachin Tendulkar (6) would have featured…

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By Kiev Chesney  Last year, it seemed as though every time teenage swim sensation Brittany Van Lange plunged into the pool she shattered a record, and in her first meet of the year, the Inter-Club Endurance Swim Meet held over the weekend at Castellani Pool, Van Lange broke three more national records. The 14-year-old multiple Goodwill Swimming Championships gold medallist competed in six events and won five of them. In the event that she did not win, the Girls’ 13-14 200m backstroke, Soroya Simmons won in record time. Simmons clocked…

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