Alphonso Correia

Alphonso Correia Long was born in 1927.^[1]

British Guiana (now Guyana) would compete at the 1948 Summer Olympics for its first appearance at any edition of the Olympic Games.^[2] There, Correia would be part of the delegation and compete in the men's featherweight category for athletes that weighed 60 kilograms or less.^[1] Alongside his teammate Orlando Chaves, they would be the first weightlifters to compete at the Olympic Games for Guyana.^[3] Correia would compete on 9 August 1948 against 22 other competitors.^[4]

His first lift in the event would be the military press. In the lift, Correia would record a weight of 75 kilograms and place equal 20th in the lift.^[5] In the snatch, he would record a weight of 85 kilograms and place equal 16th in the lift.^[6] The last lift would be the clean and jerk, there, he would record a weight of 115 kilograms and place equal 13th in the lift.^[7] Overall, he would finish with a total of 275 kilograms and place 18th. The eventual winner of the event would be Mahmoud Fayad of Egypt with a world record-setting total of 332.5 kilograms.^[4]

Long died in 2005.^[1]