Eighteen records broken at GAPLF intermediate /Masters Championship

On Sunday, the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF) hosted its Intermediate and Masters Championship at Chase’s Academic Foundation in Kingstown, where an impressive number of 18 national records were broken.

Nangita Seenarine, competing in the female equipped category, was crowned the best lifter in her division. The 23-year-old athlete, competing in the 52kg weight class, broke eight records. Her notable lifts included a 120kg squat, a 50kg bench press, and a 120kg deadlift. Seenarine’s outstanding performance earned her the weight class records for all three lifts, as well as the total record of 290kg for both the women’s junior and women’s open categories.

Second place went to Samara Sukhai with three wins from four clashes and third to Akira Watson Billingy , 12 , also won the U13 and U15 girls ’ titles

She would have clean sweep the female category, but Sukhai, who also continues to improve, stopped her in the U19 final 3-1 She lost the opener 7-11 before she stepped up her game to defeat her rival 11-8, 11-9, 14-12

Joint third place went to Watson and Seona Barker

In the Boys U19 division, Jonathan Van Lange played unbeaten to the title. He defeated Malachi Moore 11-6, 11-2, 12-10 in the semi-final before whipping Umar Percival 11-8, 11-3, 11-8.

The ‘ B ’ Division was won by Niran Bisshu.

Overall in the championship, Zion Hickerson won the U9 Boys ; Darius Daniels the U11 Boys, Jaden Trotman the Novice; Kayden Meusa the U13 Boys and Moore, the U15 title.