COMMONWEALTH GAMES: Brathwaite, Goodluck finish 11th in Queen’s Pairs Prize
Guyana’s riflemen, Lennox Brathwaite and Ronsford Goodluck, finished 11th overall when the Queen’s Pairs Prize Finals concluded on Tuesday at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
Competing at the Belmont Full Bore Range, the Guyanese ended the two-day Pairs competition with 563 points and 48 Vs. Brathwaite had 284 points and 23 Vs, while Goodluck managed 279 points and 25 Vs.
Brathwaite shot 49:5 at the 300-yard, 50:5 at 500, 47:4 at 600, 72:6 at 900 and 66:3 at 1,000, while Goodluck had 50:6 at 300, 49:6 at 500, 48:3 at 600, 65:4 at 900 and 67:6 at 1,000.
Those numbers were enough to make the Guyanese the top Caribbean shooters at the Pairs event. The Jamaican pair of Denis Nelson and David Rickman finished 13th with 530:18, followed by Barbados (Richard Arthur and Jason Wood- 524:25) in 14th, Antigua and Barbuda (Edworth Benjamin and Desroy Maile- 511:23) in 15th and Trinidad and Tobago (Michael Perez and Delborn Joseph- 500:20) in the cellar position at 16th.
England’s Parag Patel and David Luckman copped gold with 584 points and 61 Vs; Chris Watson and Gareth Morris of Wales took silver with 582 points and 58 Vs, while Scotland’s Alexander Walker and Ian Shaw won bronze with 582 points and 49 Vs.
Meanwhile, Brathwaite and Goodluck will be in action again on Wednesday when day one of the Queen’s Prize Individual competition is contested at the Belmont Full Bore Range.