Antigua and Barbuda National Olympic Committee is set to participate in the 2025 Junior Pan American Games to be held in Asuncion, Paraguay, from 9th – 23rd August.
From August 9th to the 23rd, 2025, the second edition of the Junior Pan American Games will be held in Paraguay. This event is one of the most important projects of Panam Sports and its aim is to detect and support the great stars that will shine in the near future. The Cali 2021 Pan American Games represented the starting point for great stars of international sport who excelled in Santiago 2023 and recently in the Paris Olympic Games.
This is due to the fact that the Junior Games will provide direct qualification for Lima 2027 to athletes who win a gold medal, this being one of the great prizes of this continental event. In Cali 2021, 202 athletes qualified for the most important sports event of the Americas, and for this new edition of the event, the number of qualifications will increase to 218. 2003 to 2013 : Years of birth of the participating athletes
Antigua and Barbuda is qualified and approved to participate in 5 disciplines, including Sailing, Athletics, Swimming, Fencing, and, for the first time, Weightlifting and Table Tennis.
The team will be headed by Chef de Mission, Ms. Karen Joseph, assisted by the ABNOC Office Supervisor, Eric Henry. The team is as follows:
Athletics, which will run from 18th – 22nd August
La’Nika Locker – 100m
Ajani Daley – 100m
Geolyna Dowdye – 100m and 200m
Athletics will be managed by Teddy Daley
Swimming, which will run from 10th – 14th August
Anjulique Liddie
Madison McMillian
Ethan Stubbs-Greene
Tivon Benjamin
The team will be managed by Nelson Molina
Sailing, which will run from 15th – 17th August
O’zari Landford – Laser Class
Sailing will be managed by Karl James
Antigua and Barbuda will compete at the Games level in the discipline of Table Tennis for the first time. Antigua and Barbuda will be represented by Stuti Kasyap, who is entering as the highest-ranked athlete. She will be managed by Arleena Edwards. Table Tennis will run from 16th to 21st August.
Consideration is to be given to the Fencing Federation to participate despite the athlete not having much Local or regional competition. Antigua and Barbuda will be represented by Jewel Chrump. She will be managed by Vaughn Charles. Fencing will run from 10th – 12th August 2025.
Another first timer or new sport will be represented by our nation in Weightlifting. Consideration is given to Amyah Hodge to participate. Amyah competed in the Caribbean Championships, which were held in Barbados, making her eligible to participate in the Games. Amyah will compete in the 77kg class. She will be managed by Steve Williams.
High expectations or medal performances are expected by La’Nika Locker in the women’s 200m, Stuti Kasyap and O’zani Landford in the Laser boat sailing.
4206 athletes from 41 countries in 28 sports and 43 disciplines
28 sports: Aquatics, Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Canoe/Kayak, Cycling, Fencing, Gymnastics, Golf, Judo, Karate, Rowing, Sailing, Sport Shooting, Skating, Squash, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Triathlon, Weightlifting, Water Ski/Wakeboard, Wrestling, Handball, Hockey, Rugby 7s and Volleyball.
Meanwhile, Antigua and Barbuda will be represented at Panam Sports Annual General Assembly, which will take place 7-8th August in Asunción, Paraguay, days before the opening ceremony of the Games. The ABNOC President, Hon. E. P. Chet Greene, and Secretary General, Cliff Williams, will be attending the congress and as well as carrying out their role at the Games.
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As I am watching from the side I would like to know,
Why isn’t La’Nika Locker running the 200m?
Why isn’t Ajani Daley running the 200m?
where is Dwayne Flemming?
Where is Tyra Fenton?
Where is Darion Skerrit?
are they above the age limit?
The nation’s athletes, need continuous international exposure
Watching from the side- I too realized that they did not list her to run in the 200 m . However, later down in the article they mentioned that they are expecting her to medal in the 200m. This clarify to me that they made an error in the earlier part of the article, when they listed her to run in the 100m and had Dowdye running both 100 and 200m . Which must be an error, since she her favorite and stronger event is the 200m. I also predicting that sooner than later she is going to either become a top class 100m or 400m. She has the talent and Bolt proved that tall athletes can also dominate the 100m .
I always felt that a 100m runner should also run the 200m and over the years all our top tends to just focus on the 100m, Bakka, Greene, Lloyd, I think Miguel stepped down from the 200m to the 100m a few times.
Big up to my girl Dowdye on her hard work and determination keep pushing and down the road one will eventually pay off.