Guyana’s medal heist at the ongoing FESUPO Regional South American Men’s Classic Powerlifting Championships in Lima, Peru continued on the third day (Thursday) of competition when the athletes earned a total of eight medals.
This is according to a release dispatched to the media by the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPLF).
The release stated that headlining the day was Wazim Mohamed (93kg M1 class) who obliterated his only challenger to sweep all the available gold medals but set a new FESUPO Men’s Masters 1 deadlift record in the process.
Tapia Hidalgo Gustavo Enrique of Chile, Mohamed’s only opponent as Coimbra David of Brazil who was registered to compete did not do so, Mohamed bettered his Chilean rival in all the lifts. His best squat was 240.0kg, benchpress 165.0kg, deadlift 272.5kg, and a new Fesupo record whilst his total was 677.5.
Mohamed, who also entered the South American Men’s Classic Bench Press Championships, press-ed his way to the gold. Enrique’ scores were squat 202.5kg, benchpress 132.5, deadlift 232.5kg, and total, 567.5.
Leroy ‘The Underdog’ Trotman, battled in the Men’s Open 93kg category and landed the overall bronze apart from bronze medals in the squat (240.0kg) and deadlift (285.0kg). He registered a benchpress of 142.5kg for a total of 667.5kg.
As their female colleagues (Sarah Sanmogan and Keisha Abrigo) did on the opening day of the competition, Mohamed and Trotman ensured that the medal count for Guyana increased, handsomely.
The gold medal was taken by Chile’s Bernado Ibenez with a total of 735.0kg (squat 270.0kg, benchpress 180.0kg, deadlift 285.0kg) with the silver taken by Brazilian, Denis Gibson whose total was 702.5kg (squat 272.5, benchpress 165.0kg, deadlift 265.0kg).
On day two, the other Guyanese debutant, Kheon Evans did not place in the top three of the 83kg Open division despite a good performance. He was plagued by a shoulder injury and, Bjorn Williams was also not able to place in the 105kg Open division.
Despite, Guyana’s medal tally going into the final day, yesterday with Masters 4 athlete, Naranjan Singh the only athlete to lift in the Equipped contest was as follows. Gold 11; Silver 2; Bronze 5.
The GAPLF is expressing sincere gratitude to the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, National Sports Commission, Guyana Olympic Association, John Fernandes Limit-ed, the National Milling Company of Guyana, and 592Tees for making the team’s trip to Peru, a reality.
