{"id":21610,"date":"2024-08-07T23:46:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T23:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21610"},"modified":"2024-08-07T23:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T23:46:15","slug":"district-10-wins-inaugural-exxonmobil-youth-relay-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/district-10-wins-inaugural-exxonmobil-youth-relay-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"District 10 Wins Inaugural ExxonMobil Youth Relay Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>District 10 emerged victorious at ExxonMobil\u2019s inaugural Inter-District Youth Relay Festival 2024, held on Sunday at the National Track and Field Facility in Lenora. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District 10 showcased their dominance by securing the championship title with 172 points, narrowly beating Georgetown, which finished with 170 points to claim second place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berbice took third place, followed by Essequibo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition featured athletes from Region Ten, Georgetown, Berbice, and Essequibo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a presentation ceremony held on Wednesday at Roroima Duke Lodge, ExxonMobil Guyana awarded prizes, including vouchers, to the top finishers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District 10 athletes took home over fifty medals, the inaugural championship trophy, and a plaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District 10 excelled in several events, including the U16 4&#215;100 meter male and female races, the U20 girls&#8217; 4&#215;100 meter and 4&#215;400 meter races, as well as the U16 boys&#8217; 4&#215;400 meter and 4&#215;200 meter categories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also won the sprint medley relay and claimed first place in both the U16 boys&#8217; and U20 girls&#8217; categories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, District 10 secured six second places and three third positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arinze Chance, founder of A Record Chance Inc. and promoter of the event, stated that the initiative aimed to reignite interest in track and field within the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Athletes were selected based on their performances at last year\u2019s National Schools Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District 10 emerged victorious at ExxonMobil\u2019s inaugural Inter-District Youth Relay Festival 2024, held on Sunday at the National Track and Field Facility in Lenora. District 10 showcased their dominance by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21610","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\/21610","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=21610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21612,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21610\/revisions\/21612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}