They were the stars of the Guyana team. You wouldn't recognise they won a silver medal and two bronze, and because of a fundamental mistake on the part of one of them, we could have returned with another silver or bronze."

According to Adonis, the swimmers did well also. "If you look at the times they recorded in every event you would recognise they bettered the times they went into the event with" he said.

Manager/coach of the table tennis team Sydney Christophe said the players came up against stronger, more experienced players in the tournament who were older than the locals but said the experience will augur well for the future.

Swimming coach Mary Chung said the two-man swim team (Onan Thom and Ronald Ying) did very well, but they need better training facilities in Guyana.Thom recorded two personal best times at the meet.

His new personal best time for the 200-metre breaststroke is one minute 10.73 seconds, while the new time for his 100-metre backstroke is one minute 05.30 seconds.

Boxing coach Carl Franklyn said he was not too pleased with his boxers performance.

Payne won a silver medal in the men's 800-metre where he returned a personal best time of one minute 51.05 seconds, while Vaughn leaped to a 5.88m long jump bronze medal and hopped, skipped and jumped 12:23m for the triple jump bronze.

Payne also placed fourth in the 400-metre (48.35 seconds).

Keith Roberts placed fourth in the final of the 100-metre sprint in 10.78 seconds, while Cleveland Forde was seventh in the 5000-metre event in 15 minutes 46.71 seconds.

In boxing, the local pugilists lost their first round contests but were still rewarded with bronze medals.

Team coach Carl Franklyn explained that all the fighters drew bye's to the semi-final round and therefore were entitled to medals though they all lost their respective bouts.

The referee stopped light middleweight Rayon O'Neil's contest in the second round and Junior flyweight Wilmot Hutson as well as junior welterweight Iwan Azore contest's in the third round.

Super Heavyweight Mitchell Rogers lost by a slim 7-9 points decision, while Bantamweight Paul Lewis lost by a 16-4 points decision and Lennox Allen by a 16-7 decision.

The table tennis players struggled throughout the competition.

The men's table tennis team settled for sixth place in the eight team competition after securing their only victory over Bolivia (3-0). They lost 1-3 to Peru in a playoff for fifth position with Jonathan Sankar recording their lone victory.

In their first round group matches, they went down 3-2 to Argentina and 3-0 to Brazil.

The local girls suffered 3-0 defeats at the hands of Chile, Peru and Brazil.