{"id":21896,"date":"2024-09-02T16:16:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21896"},"modified":"2024-09-02T16:16:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T16:16:57","slug":"teams-set-to-arrive-for-winfield-brathwaite-caribbean-schoolboys-and-junior-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/teams-set-to-arrive-for-winfield-brathwaite-caribbean-schoolboys-and-junior-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams Set to Arrive for Winfield Brathwaite Caribbean Schoolboys and Junior Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Travis Seymour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Winfield Brathwaite Caribbean Schoolboys and Junior Championships is scheduled to take place from August 16 to 18 at the National Gymnasium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head of the Guyana Boxing Association, Steve Ninvalle, has announced that teams will begin arriving on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s 28-member team will be based at Andrew \u2018Six Head\u2019 Lewis\u2019s gymnasium starting Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirmed participating nations include Grenada, Trinidad &amp; Tobago, St. Lucia, Suriname, Barbados, and Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ninvalle expressed high expectations for the event, emphasizing its importance for the sport&#8217;s development in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In preparation for the championships, over twelve under-16 competitions have been organized to ensure local boxers are in peak condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will feature local and international medical teams to oversee the athletes&#8217; well-being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The championships are named in honor of Winfield Brathwaite, a renowned Commonwealth medalist, continuing the tradition of recognizing successful Caribbean boxers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana recently secured a strong performance at the OECS Boxing Championship in St. Lucia, finishing second with four gold and two silver medals, trailing only behind Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Travis Seymour The Winfield Brathwaite Caribbean Schoolboys and Junior Championships is scheduled to take place from August 16 to 18 at the National Gymnasium. Head of the Guyana Boxing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21896","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\/21896","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=21896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21900,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21896\/revisions\/21900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}