Medal winners label their achievement as ‘surreal’

Local based sprinters, Noelex Holder (third from right) and Akeem Stewart (second from right), one-half of the bronze medal winning quartet at the just concluded South America Senior Championships in Ecuador, labelled their achievement as surreal

Locally based sprinters, Noelex Holder and Akeem Stewart, one-half of the bronze medal winning quartet at the just concluded South America Senior Championships in Ecuador have labelled their achievement as surreal.

The athletes along with the accompanying team officials spoke of their experiences during a press briefing which was held yesterday at the headquarters of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) at Liliendaal.

Also present at the briefing were GOA’s head, Kalam Juman-Yassin, men’s 800m national champion, Devaun Barrington and head of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Aubrey Hutson.