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Guyana’s men win bronze at NACAC C/ships
Cleveland Forde
Kelvin Johnson
Forde was first Caribbean athlete to finish
By Edison Jefford
On the heels of Cleveland Forde’s overall fifth place finish at the North America, Central America and Caribbean (NACAC) Cross Country Championships on Saturday, Guyana’s male team won bronze among the competing nations.
Forde was the first Caribbean athlete to cross the finish line in a time of 24:39 in the 8km hilly terrain event at Mount Irvine Bay Golf Course in Tobago. American, Max King won the event in 23:49.00 with three team-mates before Forde.
Michael Spence was second in 24:06 with Robert Mack third in 24:26 and Thomas Kloos fourth in 24:34, to lead an American clean sweep of the top four positions that effectively landed them the gold medal in the men’s team category.
Mexico finished second overall while Guyana took third after Kelvin Johnson was 14th in the race, Wilbert Mingo 16th, Lionel D’Andrade 17th and Jamaal Chisholm 24th of the 29 participants in the senior male competition.
Lionel D’Andrade
Wilbert Mingo
Hosts, Trinidad and Tobago were fourth overall with Aruba taking fifth. The Americans also won the female title after Delilah Di Crescenzo won the 6km event in 20:50. Locals, Ashanti Scott was 15th with Rebeka Alexander 17th overall.
The Athletics Association of Guyana had sent a full-fledged team to the event in an effort aimed at garnering the results as did the men’s team. The association has maintained that its intention is to expose as much athletes as possible.
Forde told Kaieteur Sport yesterday, after he returned from Trinidad on Sunday, that the race was very competitive and helped him achieve a relatively good time. He stated that the Americans came at him hard in the event.
“I thought the Mexicans would have given me more of a challenge when the race started but the Americans came out hard. It was a good race though and I am satisfied with that performance,” Guyana’s leading distance athlete said.
Forde admitted that the event was more or less conditioning for him because when he had examined the course, he saw that it was one that he could get injured on. He made it clear that he was not prepared to risk any injuries.
“I did not push myself too hard. You could get injured on a course like that. I just found a good rhythm and coasted,” the multi IAAF South American 10km Road Race winner said before he turned his attention to his upcoming season.
Forde has a few high-profiled competitions high on his schedule this year and as such, he confessed that he is taking his preparations very seriously. Apart from the region, he is of the opinion that his dominance will be hemispheric.
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