After sending a successful team of amateur pugilists to the Horace Phillips Memorial Boxing Tournament in Barbados, the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) is now planning to send a team to St. Lucia this month end.
“We are now in the process of selecting a team to represent us at the St. Lucian Championships from the 28th to the 30th of March,” GBA’s president Steve Ninvalle told Stabroek Sport yesterday.
“I think everyone knows that there has been an upsurge of international competitions around the world and we will not be left behind.”
Ninvalle added, “Coming on the heels of our participation in the tournament in Barbados where we came back with a 60% winning average, having sent five boxers and three of them won, we have shifted our focus to St. Lucia. That team of boxers to St Lucia will be decided shortly.”
The GBA head noted that the championships will be two-fold since “it will also have a spinoff effect because we will also have a meeting involving the representatives of the Caribbean associations in St Lucia on March 29.”
Ninvalle also pointed out that three of Guyana’s top amateur boxers, Dennis Thomas, Eon Bancroft and Theresa London are currently in Chile for the South American Championships.
“We have a team in Chile that will go into competition tomorrow (today) and we wished them the best of luck.”
Notes: The Horace Phillips Memorial tri-nation Tournament was held on March 8. Boxers from Guyana, the US Virgin Islands and the host competed for medals.
Dawani Lampkin, Dillon Charles and Ron Smith returned to Guyana with gold medals while Clairmont Gibson and Michael April suffered “questionable defeats” according to Ninvalle
