Indoor Archery

The Guyana Sport Shooting Foundation/Archery Guyana on Thursday, June 23, 2016 successfully hosted its Inaugural Olympic Day Indoor Archery Competition at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue in observance of Olympic Day on the same day as is customary worldwide by sporting organisations.

 Olympic Day was introduced in 1948 to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games on 23 June 1894 at the Sorbonne in Paris. The goal was to promote participation in sport across the globe regardless of age, gender or athletic ability.

President of the International Olympic Committee, Mr. Thomas Bach had opined: “Every year, Olympic Day allows the whole world to unite behind the Olympic dream.” Guyana is no different.

President of the Guyana Sport Shooting Foundation, Ms. Vidushi Persaud-McKinnon noted that on June 23^rd every year, millions of people across the world get active to celebrate Olympic Day. She went on to say that in Guyana, the Guyana Sport Shooting Foundation/Archery Guyana will commemorate this day by hosting an Indoor Archery Competition among their registered members.​

As a part of the Guyana’s 50th Independence Activities the Guyana Sport Shooting Foundation and the National Sports Commission once again successfully collaborated on Saturday 19^th March, 2016 to this time feature Indoor Archery in the NSC’s 50 Shades of Games  Sports Programme.