Last Friday members of the National Sports Commission, Guyana Olympic Association and officials from the Ministry of Sports and Vulture met with national athletes in view of ensuring systems are in place to aid their performance and wellbeing for the upcoming Pan American Games to be held in Santiago Chile.
Minister Charles Ramson Jr. met with Guyana’s athletes and officials selected for the 2023 edition of the Pan American games in a hybrid format at his Ministry’s Main Street conference room. Ramson engaged the athletes , urged them to do their best and also extended well wishes on behalf of himself, the government and people of Guyana.
He individually spoke to the respective Managers, Coaches and athletes of each team and engaged them on their preparedness, queried if there are any challenges, or areas they believe we can work collaboratively to improve and the athletes’ prospects at the games.
President of the Guyana Olympic Association, Mr. Godfrey Munroe, was present with members of his Executive Committee. He delivered a charge and wished all the athletes well on behalf of the G.O.A.
A key feature of Guyana’s representation is the multiplicity of disciplines of which we have qualified athletes for at the games.
Guyana will be represented in the disciplines of Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Swimming, Weight Lifting and Esport Chef de Mission is Mr. Deion Nurse.
Team Guyana
Archery 1st –5th November 2023
• Devin Persaud-Permaul Athlete Men’s Recurve
• Wayne De Abreu Manager Coach
Athletics 29th October–4th November
• Emanuel Archibald Men’s 100 and 200 Metres
• Leslain Baird Men’s Javelin
• Keliza Smith Women’s 100 Metres
• Jasmine Abrams Women’s 100 Metres
• Aliyah Abrams Women’s 400 metres
• Johnny Gravesande Coach
Badminton 21st to 25th Oct 2023
• Priyanna Ramdhani Women’s Singles
• Jonathan Mangra Coach
Boxing October 19–27 October 2023
• Desmond Amsterdam Men’s 80kg
• Keevin Allicock Men’s 57kg
• Alesha Jackman Female 66kg
• Emmanuel Pompey Men’s 92kg
• Joel Williamson Men’s 63.5kg
• Terrence Poole Coach
. Francisco Hernandez Roldan Coach
Table Tennis 29th October–5th November 2023
• Shemar Britton Men’s Singles and Mixed Doubles
• Chelsea Edghill Women’s Singles and Mixed Doubles
• Idi Lewis Coach
Taekwondo 21st –24th October 2023
• Ceili Peterson Women’s Kyorugi -49 Kg
• Ramphal Ramjeet Manager Coach
Weight Lifting 21–24 October 2023
• Krystol Chanderban Women’s 52 KG
• Shammah Noel – Men’s 89kg
• Sean Cozier Coach
Swimming October 20th to 26th 2023
• Aleka Persaud
• Raekwon Noel
• Sean Baksh Coach
Esport 30th Oct to 5th November 2023
• Hemchandra Persaud athlete – efootball 2023
• Shoaib Juman-Yassin Coach/Manager
Physiotherapist
• Ms Vanessa Wickham
Chef de Mission
• Mr. Deion Nurse
Media personnel Mr. Akeem Greene Newsroom and Jemina Holmes Guyana Times were selected and partially sponsored by PanAm sport to attend and cover the games.
