Sports

Delight Travel Service joined the growing list of donors to support the resuscitation of the Golden Mile, which is scheduled to be hosted on March 12th at the National Park Circuit, Thomas Lands.

The top three finishers in the recent  East Coast Mash Cup Football Championships, Ann’s Grove, Dynamic FC and Pouderoyen were presented with their prizes during a simple presentation ceremony on Monday at the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) secretariat.

Four Guyanese are currently in Antigua going through player development and assessment exercises in preparation for Cricket West Indies (CWI) participation in the International Cricket Council (ICC) men’s Under-19 World Cup, scheduled for Sri Lanka in 2024.

South Africa reached the semi-finals of their home ICC Women’s T20 World Cup with a 10-wicket win over Bangladesh at Newlands. 

BENONI, South Africa, CMC – Jason Holder and Joshua da Silva gathered purposeful half-centuries and West Indies made a tame start to their Tour of South Africa yesterday.

Free agent Brittney Griner officially re-signed with the Phoenix Mercury, the team announced yesterday.

LIVERPOOL, England, (Reuters) – Holders Real Madrid produced a stunning comeback from two goals down to earn a devastating 5-2 victory at a shell-shocked Liverpool in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie yesterday.

Diamond Secondary for the second consecutive year won the Pre-Mash Inter-Secondary Schools tape-ball cricket competition, defeating Vergenoegen by nine wickets on Saturday at the Durban Park Tarmac.

India’s wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh has moved into the top 20 of the MRF Tyres ICC Women’s T20I Player Rankings for the first time after some good scores in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 while Amelia Kerr of New Zealand and Muneeba Ali of Pakistan are other batters to achieve career-best rankings.

LONDON, CMC – Jamaica sprint darling Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the only English-speaking Caribbean national nominated for the 2023 Laureus World Sports award.

FRANKFURT, Germany,  (Reuters) – Goals from Victor Osimhen and Giovanni Di Lorenzo gave dominant Napoli a comfortable 2-0 victory at 10-man Eintracht Frankfurt in their Champions League last-16 first leg yesterday.

(Reuters) – England smashed the highest-ever score at a Women’s Twenty20 World Cup before demolishing Pakistan by a record 114 runs in a group stage match yesterday in Cape Town, South Africa.

There was fever pitched excitement, an overflow of fight fans and fistic fury not witnessed locally in years when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) hosted the Patrick Ford Memorial Boxing Tournament on Sunday at the National Gymnasium. 

The recently-elected Demerara Cricket Board has announced that the 2023 season will get underway shortly with a new Inter-Club 50-overs-a-side knockout tournament for first-division clubs.

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) hosted its first Drag Race Meet of the season Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit dubbed Drag Wars 1.0.

Mobile Money Guyana, known widely as MMG, has teamed up with the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) to host the National U-14 Chess Championships.

The Guyana Industrial Minerals (GINMIN) has thrown its support behind the ninth Milo Secondary School Football Championship by donating eight complete kits that will be utilized during the event’s round of 16 stage.

Former West Indies test player Rajendra Chandrika has been named captain of the Select XI which will compete in the Guyana Cricket Board’s Inter-County competition beginning Friday.

(Reuters) – Netherlands’ Femke Bol ran the 400 metres in 49.26 seconds at the Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn Sunday to break one of the longest-standing world records in track and field.

LONDON, (Reuters) – More than 30 countries, including the United States, Britain and France, yesterday pledged their support for banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing in international sporting events, a British government statement said.