Archery Guyana continues encouraging showing at Americas Online Archery Cup

Guyana’s archers continued their encouraging showing in the qualification round of the World Archery Americas’ Online Archery Cup of the Americas competition.

Five archers, three males and two females competed in the 18m event on August 23 and 25.

Umasankar Madray scored 298 points. Nicholas Hing, 338 and Robert Singh, the senior indoor and outdoor champion, 404 points.

Junior female champion Talitha Kisson scored 245 points and Samira Duncan 347 points.

The Online Archery Cup of the Americas is a World Archery Americas sanctioned competition seeking to advance the spirit of competition on a virtual arena whilst abiding with the COVID-19 safety measures across the Americas ( North, South & Central America and the Caribbean).

Archery Guyana, the local governing body, was tasked with conducting the qualification round. Scores were recorded electronically, pictures of equipment, scorecards and the target were sent to the Competitions and Judging Committee via WhatsApp for tabulations and scrutiny.

The scores for Guyana’s Qualification Round will be submitted to World Archery where they will be tabulated with the scores from all the other competing countries after which the top two Archers in each category will be shortlisted to take part in an Elimination shoot, set for late September.

Cognizant of the national COVID-19 protocols in place and abiding with the laws and the social distancing safety rules to the limit on the number of persons permitted to be in any gatherings, shooting was done in pairs at different times and dates.