{"id":14016,"date":"2023-11-14T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=14016"},"modified":"2023-11-14T16:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:41:35","slug":"guyana-olympic-association-rewards-pan-american-medalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-olympic-association-rewards-pan-american-medalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Olympic Association Rewards Pan-American Medalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has honored Pan-American Games medalists Jasmine Abrams, Emmanuel Archibald, and Leslain Baird with cash rewards in recognition of their historic achievements in Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President of the Guyana Olympic Association, Godfrey Munroe, extended congratulations to all athletes representing Guyana across nine sporting disciplines at the games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disciplines included badminton, track and field, e-sport football, boxing, table tennis, archery, swimming, weightlifting, and taekwondo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Javelin thrower Leslain Baird and sprinter Emmanuel Archibald, who secured bronze medals, received $400,000 each, with their coach Johnny Gravesande receiving $50,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Female sprinter Jasmine Abrams, who clinched silver, was awarded $600,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Munroe urged corporate Guyana to provide essential support for top athletes undergoing training for international events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GOA&#8217;s focus is now on maximizing the performance of top athletes in regional competitions, with six months remaining until the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leslain Baird, 36, secured the bronze medal with a throw of 78.23m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jasmine Abrams, competing in the women&#8217;s 100m, ran a superb race to win silver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emmanuel Archibald secured the bronze medal in the men&#8217;s 100m event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GOA&#8217;s initiative aims to motivate and support athletes in their pursuit of excellence on the international stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reported by Travis Seymour for NCN NEWS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) has honored Pan-American Games medalists Jasmine Abrams, Emmanuel Archibald, and Leslain Baird with cash rewards in recognition of their historic achievements in Chile. President of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14018,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions\/14018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}