Guyana’s Commonwealth Games women’s 400-metre gold medalist Aliann Pompey could miss out on representing Guyana at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Track and Field Meet unless sponsorship is secured for her to travel from Europe to Grenada.
According to Pompey, who clocked 51.96 seconds in winning the women’s 400-metre event at last year’s Commonwealth Games in England, she was informed by an official of the Amateur Athletic Association of Guyana (AAAG) that the association is strapped for cash, and unless funds are made available, she would not be a part of Guyana’s team at the Meet. “How disappointing, I was looking forward to it,” Pompey lamented.
Pompey, along with United States based Guyanese athletes Marian Burnette and Alec Henry and locally based Michelle Vaughn, Nyota Peters, Andre Blackman, Tai Payne and Clyde Gibson were shortlisted by the Council of the AAA to represent Guyana at the CAC Meet slated for July 4 to 6.
Pompey, who is also based in the US, is currently in Europe where according to her she is...”trying to get in a few meets before CAC and Pan Am.
The Pan American Games is billed for Santo Domingo during the month of August.
Pompey said she returned 51.9 seconds on Tuesday at a Meet in Europe and will be on show again tomorrow in Warsaw, Poland.
Vaughn, Peters, Blackman, Payne and Gibson were also shortlisted for the South American Seniors, slated for Venezuela from June 20 to 22.