National Outdoor Archery Championships concludes

In the Match-play Eliminations leading up to theFinalsonthesecondday, Guyana’s top archers in the Men,U18Men,Womenand U18 Women categories, battled for the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in both the Barebow and Recurve divisions. Beginning with the Barebow Division, Vishal Manbode won 6-0 against Fabian Ramdatt to face Jeewanram Persaud, while Sean Duncan won 6-0 againstAlex Mangla to face NicholasHing.

Hing won 6-0 over Courtley Rodrigues to face Duncan, father & son Afzal andSaeedKarimfacedeach other with the younger, SaeedKarim,winning6-0to f a c e M o h a m m a d Zamaluddin, and Mehandra Chatargum also took a 6-0 winoverFaraadGanitoface AnandMangra. IntheSemifinals Jeewanram Persaud won 6-0 over Vishal Manbode, while Sean Duncan won 7-3 over Hing, Zamaluddin won 6-0 over Karim,andMangrawon6-0 over Chatargum In the Finals, Mangra beat Duncan fortheBronzewhilePersaud emerged victorious with Gold over Zamaluddin’s Silver

The Women Barebow sawBibiSaleemaSalimwin against Karin Toppin 6-0. Salim then beat Theresa Jaikishun by the same margin to go through to the Final as Roshini Boodhoo took 6-0 over Julie Ann Williams through to the finals also. Jaikishun and Williamsthenbattledforthe BronzemedalwithWilliams emerging the winner for Bronze,andSalimtakingthe GoldoverBoodhoo’sSilver

In the Barebow Men

Under18category,Saifullah Gani won 6-0 against

NicholasSookdeothrutothe semi-final, while Lucas Chung edged out Luzigue Stanley 6-5 to go thru to the finals against Christian Craigen. Gani and Stanley shot for the Bronze with Stanley emerging the winner, as Craigen and Chungfoughtforthecoveted Gold. The Gold eventually went to Craigen and Chung settledfortheSilver

The Men’s Recurve was fast-pacedasAnandMangra eliminated out Nicholas Hing early, as did Vishal Manbode against Saeed Karim,SeanDuncanagainst Farad Gani, and Jeewanram Persaud against Fabian Ramdatt. The Semi-finals saw Mangra advance to the final after defeating Manbode 7-1, and Persaud pushingpastDuncanwith6-

2.ManbodeandDuncanshot for Bronze with Manbode emerging the winner, and