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Jan 31, 2013 Sports
The third edition of the Rose Hall Town Anniversary and Development Organization monthly road race was successfully held on Sunday last along the Corentyne Highway. The 5KM event saw the athletes running off from in from of the K. Jagdeo Construction company No1 Road Corentyne to the Rose Hall Town Arch.
The event, which is being organised to help resuscitate athletics in the ancient county, saw some 37 athletes taking to the starting line. Pre race favourite Denzil Leitch lived up to expectations to capture his second race in three starts in a time of 18 minutes 38 seconds.
Leitch, who ran a good race, was hardly challenged brushing off his early pursuers to win easily by about 400M. Michael Dick, Michael Layne, Odwin Tudor, Kegan Fleming and Quincy Dennis followed Leitch home in that order to occupy the top six positions. The winner received $2,500 and a trophy, while Dick fetched away $2,000 for his efforts. The other top finishers were also rewarded.
On the distaff side national junior sprinter Tyenese McKenzie showed her all round ability as she joined Leitch in winning her second title of the event. She ran away an easy winner ahead of Melisa Kyte and Erica Lashley.
The event was jointly sponsored by two of Berbice leading top corporate business entities Banks DIH Limited the Universal DVD solutions and DVD club.
The next race is carded for Sunday 3rd March 2013 and according to coordinator Godwyn Allicock. They are very pleased with the turn out this time around stating that the idea is catching on. He motioned that some new initiatives are on the cards, which should cater for different age groups and clubs.
Interested persons can contact Allicock on telephone numbers 337-4774. (Samuel Whyte)
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