XXVII Carifta Swimming Championships...
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t r o Sp Jessica Stephenson swims to gold in 200m breast; van Lange in action today
uyana’s top female swimmer Jessica Stephenson has continued her dominance of the region at the Carifta level when she swam to another gold medal and the first for Guyana this year in the 200m breatstroke at the XXVII Carifta Swimming Championships which started yesterday in Nassau, Bahamas and continues through Sunday. Headlining Team Guyana’s chances is Stephenson along with another promising Guyanese, Britany van Lange, team Coach is Shyka Gonsalves. The team arrived in the Bahamas on Tuesday, April 10th with both swimmers eager to improve their chances of representing Guyana at the London 2012 Olympic Games by attaining new Personal Best Times and rising in the FINA points rankings. Immediately, however, Jessica is defending her historic gold medal sweep of the breaststroke events which she achieved at Carifta 2011 in the
land of the Flying Fish, Barbados. Stephenson was the first Guyanese in the pool yesterday, swimming her best event - the 200m breaststroke. She went into the preliminaries seeded second with an entry time of 2:43.32 and swam well within her capability to earn a place in last evening’s final seeded third. When the waves of the final had settled, Stephenson had a firm grip on her first gold medal with a time of 2:42.20 - more than two seconds ahead of 2nd placed Breanna Roman of Jamaica, who finished in 2:44.36. This swim earned Jessie 644 points on the FINA scale. Today, van Lange swims her first event of the Championships - the 200m Freestyle - in which she is seeded 13th with an entry time of 2:15.88. Both Stephenson (breaststroke) and van Lange (freestyle) are swimming in the 15-17 age-group and both are swimming 50m, 100m and 200m events.
Jessica Stephenson (left) and Britany van Lange.
NGRC hosts another successful Race Meet Peter Tulsi is overall leader with 3 Meets to go
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he National Grasstrack Racing Club (NGRC) of Guyana held another successful Race Meet, the second of the year o n E a s t e r S u n d a y, a t Strathavon Cricket Ground, Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara. A total of 11 events were completed with the 12th and final one of the day having to
be abandoned due to an accident which involved overall point’s leader Peter Tulsi, who sustained a broken leg. The Executive of the NGRC is wishing Tulsi a speedy recovery. Following are the results of the races: Event 1 – Novice G. Da Silva, Vickey Persaud, Raj Rajkaran Event 2 – Pro Riders
Part of the action at Sunday’s NGRC Grasstrack Meet held at the Strathavon Cricket Ground. Peter Tulsi, Andy Rajkaran, Junior Da Silva Event 3 – Chappy Sohan Kisson, Zalim Mohamed, Javid Ali Event 4 - 80cc bikes Avo Ramcoomar, Nandram Mohamed, Shafeek Abdool Event 5 - Novice V. Ramcoomar, Marlon Baksh, Raj Rajkaran Event 6 – Pro Riders Peter Tulsi was the only rider to compelet the race Event 7 – Chappy Zalim Mohamed, Reza Mohamed, Sohan Kissoon Event 8 - Pro Riders Peter Tulsi, Andy Rajkaran
Event 9 – Novice V. R amco o mar, H as el Baksh, Raj Rajkaran Event 10 - 80cc bikes A. Ramcoomar, Nandram Mohamed, Shafeek Abdool The big overall prize at stake for the Pro Riders is a brand new 2012 Yamaha bike and Tulsi is in the lead, depending on the rate of his recovery, the other riders will be sensing that their chances are just as good. Tulsi has so far accumulated 58 points and is followed by Andy Rajkaran with 46 points, Andrew Wong 30, Abi Rahman 14, Vassie
Barry 8 and Junior Da Silva 6. Three more Meets are slated for the year with the next event set for Anna Regina on July 1 under lights. The NGRC is extending sincere thanks to all who came out and supported the event especially their sponsors; DDL, Ansa Mc al, Ashmins Trading, Trans Pacific Motor Spares, Rohan Auto Sales, Sundar & S. Nauth Motor Spares, Jailing, Dons Motor Cycle Spares, RPM Motor Cycle Spare Parts and Dereck Auto Spares.
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