He did it!

By Emmerson Campbell On In Sports |
IT’S OFFICIAL! Gumendra Shewdas atop the podium is now officially Guyana’s youngest ever World Champion in any sport after being crowned World Champion of the 53kg class in the IPF World Juniors and Sub Juniors Men’s Championships in Killeen, Texas yesterday. The new world champion is flanked by USA’s Dalton La Coe (left) and Russia’s Alexei Kulakov.
IT’S OFFICIAL! Gumendra Shewdas atop the podium is now officially Guyana’s youngest ever World Champion in any sport after being crowned World Champion of the 53kg class in the IPF World Juniors and Sub Juniors Men’s Championships in Killeen, Texas yesterday. The new world champion is flanked by USA’s Dalton La Coe (left) and Russia’s Alexei Kulakov.

Berbician, Gumendra Shewdas created history yesterday by becoming Guyana’s youngest World Champion when he squatted, bench pressed and dead lifted his way to the top of the podium at the World Juniors and Sub Juniors Men’s Championships in Killeen, Texas.

Shewdas, 18, recorded a total of 475.5kg en route to lifting the gold medal in the 53kg sub junior class,