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Kaieteur News
Monday April 02, 2012
GABBFF/Malta Supreme Muscle Madness C/ships
Eybo Orford & Donnel Perry are Intermediate & Novice champs
Eybo Orford – Intermediate Overall winner
Donnel Perry – Novice Overall winner displays his prizes
Nadina Taharally (right) and Sharon Lee. If the very encouraging crowd support is anything to go by, then bodybuilding in Guyana seems to be on the right road to returning to its glory days. The Banks DIH Malta Supreme sponsored Guyana Amateur Body Building & Fitness Federation 2012 Novice and Intermediate Championships turned out to be a resounding success on Saturday evening at the Theatre Guild, Parade Street, Kingston. Emerging as overall Intermediate champion was Eybo Orford of Total Fitness
Gym, East Bank Demerara. Orford had placed 2nd in the Bantamweight category of the Novice competition to Donnel Perry of Buddy’s Gym in the Bantamweight (143lbs – 65kg) class but showed admirable determination to enter the Intermediate segment where he earned the title of overall champion. Emerging as the overall Novice champion was Perry, it was the icing on the cake for an athlete that overcame his competition in the most competitive category on the night {Bantamweight} which
attracted 12 competitors. To arrive at the winner, two of the five judges requested comparisons among the athletes to satisfy their minds that the final decision was flawless. And as it turned out, the judges did an excellent job not only in this category, but overall; the crowd left very satisfied that they {judges} were spot on, on the night. There were just two female competitors in Nadina Taharally of Interline Fitness Gym who captured the Miss Physique (open) top spot
from gym mate Sharon Lee who made her debut at this level. Lee returned to win the Miss Body Fitness (open) as the lone competitor. Guest poser Mark ‘Uno’ Perry was electric in his performance, the 2008 Mr. Guyana as well as winner of the inaugural Hugh Ross Classic looked chiseled and in the pink of form as he wowed the appreciative crowd during his guess posing routine. Barring some glitches here and there, the GABBFF under a new Executive did a splendid job and the crowd
Sammy says Windies will compete in Test series BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — West Indies captain Darren Sammy has warned Australia to expect more of his side’s fighting spirit when the threeTest series bowls off here next weekend. He was speaking Friday after West Indies produced another sensational effort to beat the Aussies by 14 runs and tie the two-match Twenty20 series 1-1. The performance was the latest show of resilience, a quality that came to the fore when they fought back during the preceding fivematch one-day series to earn a 2-2 tie. “Two and two, one and one. I think one-all in the Test series would be a perfect result for the home series,” Sammy quipped. “We now have the belief in the team that we can compete and win against topranked teams. “We’re going to carry
that same mentality towards the Tests. That’s what we’ve got to keep telling the boys, once we believe, we can achieve. We’re going to play fearless cricket when we’re at home. We intend to deliver.” West Indies bowled off the one-day series badly, slumping to a disappointing 64-run loss in the first match of the tripleheader in St Vincent. They stormed back to win the second match by five wickets, carved out a dramatic tie in the third when they appeared dead to rights, before winning the fourth match by 42 runs. The regional side then lost back-to-back matches the fifth ODI by 30 runs and the first T20 by eight wickets - but Friday’s outing again displayed their tenacity. “From the start of the series, we all know how the Australians play and we decided from the time we went to India (last year) we
Darren Sammy were going to play fearless cricket and that’s the same thing we did in this competition,” Sammy explained. “We’re going to stand up to them if they stand up to us. [We will] keep it clean but we will be very competitive and that’s what you’ve been seeing throughout this series which is good as long as we don’t disrespect our
opponents and keep it in the spirit of the game. “It was very good to see our boys showing fight and heart out there.” On Friday at Kensington Oval, West Indies suffered a bad collapse, slumping from 110 for two to 160 all out as they lost their last eight wickets for 50 runs. Australia were running away with the game at 64 for one in the eighth over until the Windies hit back strongly to restrict them to 146 for nine. “It (morale) is very good. I think that’s what propelled us to perform [on Friday]. The team spirit, the never-say-die attitude, each man fighting for the man next to him and that’s been the mantra of this unit and it’s good we got the result out there on the field,” Sammy said. “We just lost wickets. (Dwayne) Smith and (Johnson) Charles gave us a Continued on page 20
support {packed Theatre} was enormous which capped a fine evening of entertainment; persons travelling from as far as Berbice and Linden. Following are the results of both competitions. Novices - Overall Winner Donnel Perry (Buddy’s Gym) Heavyweight (over 176lbs – 80kg) Al Dowding (Interline Fitness), Christopher Miller (Universal Barbell Club) Light Middleweight (176lbs – 80kg) 4 Sherlon Hodge (Total Fitness Gym), Tremel King (Body Max Gym), Michael Dos Santos (Total Fitness Gym), Devon Johnson (Interline Fitness Gym). Welterweight (165lbs – 75kg) 6 Richard Bynoe (Interline Fitness), William Warde (Total Fitness), Paul Kelunde (Power House), Aquan Fredericks (Kingsrow Barbell Club) Lightweight (154lbs – 70kg) 3 Markwell Braithwaite (Total Fitness Gym), Quinaj Forde (Interline Fitness Gym), Ronald Livingstone (Interline Fitness Gym) Bantamweight (143lbs – 65kg) 12 Donnel Perry (Buddy’s Gym), Eybo Orford (Total Fitness Gym), Yogeshwar Urimul (Muscle Mania), Akeem Inniss (Total Fitness Gym) Miss Physique (open) Nadina Taharally (Interline Fitness Gym), Sharon Lee (Interline Fitness Gym) Miss Body Fitness (open) Sharon Lee (Interline
Fitness Gym) Junior Under-21 (open) 11 Akeem Inniss (Total Fitness Gym), Yogeshwar Urimul (Muscle Mania), Colin Sertimer (Total Fitness Gym), Aquan Fredericks (Kingsrow Barbell Club) Masters (Open) Al Dowding (Interline Fitness Gym), Markwell Braithwaite (Total Fitness Gym), Williams Warde (Total Fitness Gym) Intermediate – Overall Winner Eybo Orford (Total Fitness Gym) Welterweight (165lbs – 75kg) Richard Bynoe (Interline Fitness Gym) Lightweight (154lbs – 70kg) Terrence Morris (GDF), Markwell Braithwaite (Total Fitness Gym) Bantamweight (143lbs – 65kg) Donnel Perry (Buddy’s Gym), Eybo Orford (Total Fitness Gym) Apart from receiving trophies, all the winners were presented with supplement hampers compliments of Fitness Express. The GABBFF is expressing gratitude to the fans, judges and corporate Guyana for their support which ensured the success of both competitions. Corporate support came from Banks DIH Limited under their Malta Supreme brand, Fitness Express, Hand In Hand, Subs & Salads, DeSinco Trading, Lipton Tea, GAMA Fit, Kross Color Records and Tons of Fun Party Service. (Photos and story by Franklin Wilson)