A 12-member team of Guyana’s foremost powerlifters is currently in St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands (USVI) competing in the two-day sixth annual North American Powerlifting Federation Caribbean
Powerlifting Championships which commences today.
The team is made up of two sub-juniors, two juniors, two females and other senior powerlifters.
The profiles of the national powerlifters in the team follow:
NAME: Gumendra Narine Shewdas
CATEGORY: Male Sub-Junior 53kg class
DOB: 4th February 1995
HOMETOWN: Corriverton, Berbice
NATIONAL TITLES: National Sub-Junior 53kg
Champion 2012
NAME: Suraj Shewdas
CATEGORY: Male Sub-Junior/OPEN 59kg class
DOB :2nd February 1994
HOMETOWN: Corriverton, Berbice
NATIONAL TITLES: National Sub-Junior 59kg champion 2012
INTERNATIONAL: None
NAME:Vijai Rahim
CATEGORY:Male Junior/OPEN 59kg class
HOMETOWN:Rosignol, Berbice
DOB:21st January 1992
NATIONAL TITLES: National 59kg Junior (2012) and
Open (2011)Champion
Champion
INTERNATIONAL: Caribbean Gold medalist 2010
NAME: Anis Ade Thomas
CATEGORY: Male Junior/Open 83kg class
HOMETOWN: New Amsterdam, Berbice
DOB : 30th October 1989
NATIONAL TITLES: National 83kg Junior champion 2012
INTERNATIONAL: Caribbean Gold Medalist 2010.
CATEGORY: Female Open 84+ Kg class
NAME: Dawn Allison Mc Cammon Barker
DOB: 25th August 1980
HOMETOWN: Linden
NATIONAL TITLES: Open Champion, Record Holder
INTERNATIONAL: Medalist
NAME: Kimberley Mars – Loncke
DOB: 28th January 1978
HOMETOWN: Georgetown
NATIONAL TITLES: Champion
INTERNATIONAL: None
CATEGORY: Male Open/Masters 74kg class
NAME: Winston Frank Stoby
DOB: 24th March 1959
HOMETOWN: Georgetown
NATIONAL TITLES: Champion
INTERNATIONAL: 2010 Caribbean, CAC Gold
Medalist,
CATEGORY: Male Open 74kg class
NAME: Paul Trenton Adams
DOB: 11TH February 1986
HOMETOWN: Georgetown
NATIONAL TITLES: 67.5kg Champion 2010
INTERNATIONAL: None
CATEGORY: Male Open 83kg class
NAME: Randolph Reginald Morgan
DOB: 1st March 1978
HOMETOWN: Georgetown
NATIONAL TITLE: Champion
INTERNATIONAL: 3-time Caribbean Gold Medalist,
2010 CAC Gold Medalist and 2009 PAN AM
Gold Medalist
CATEGORY: Male Open 83kg class
NAME: Germaine Bennett Snagg
DOB : 16th September 1983
HOMETOWN: Georgetown
NATIONAL TITLES: Runner-up
INTERNATIONAL: None
CATEGORY: Male Open 105kg class
NAME: Karel Alexeev Mars
DOB:11th November 1979
HOMETOWN: Georgetown
NATIONAL TITLES: Champion
INTERNATIONAL: 2011 Caribbean Gold Medalist
CATEGORY: Male Open 120kg class
NAME: Colin Aubrey Chesney
DOB: 12th December 1974
HOMETOWN: Linden
NATIONAL
TITLES: Champion
INTERNATIONAL: None