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Courts celebrates 21 with fourth 10km Road Run
With its slogan swanking ‘Bringing Value Home’, Courts Guyana Inc. will renew epic
Guyana’s leading distance running athletes throng High Street, Kingston just after the start of the Courts 10km Road Race last year.
distance-running battles that have been one of the hallmarks of local athletics, when it celebrates turning 21 with the hosting of its fourth ‘Health Run’ and 10km Race on Sunday.
Guyana has produced more acclaimed athletes in distance-running than any other genre of track and field. It is against that fact that Courts has provided an enabling environment, generated from an understanding of their social responsibility, for distance athletes.
The Courts 10km Road Race returned to the annual calendar four years ago with a promise that the race will be an annual feature. The promise was kept and the keen rivalries, and importantly, the cash incentives that rank second to only the IAAF South American 10km Road Race Classic, are expected to attract the crème de le crème in local distance-running.
Courts’ Management, more so its marketing team is making every effort to ensure Courts 10km Road Race is a unique spectacle this year, adding additional prizes to some categories, all in an effort to ensure that the stakes continue to be exaggerated beyond just bragging rights.
The race will start in front of Courts’ Main Street Office, proceed north to the Seawall Road, east along the Seawall Road and continue east along Rupert Craig Highway’s northern carriageway to turn at Church Road on the Rupert Craig Highway.
It will then proceed on the Rupert Craig Highway’s southern carriageway into Kitty Public Road; south on Vlissengen Road; west on Lamaha Street, south on the eastern carriageway into Main Street, before turning around at the Cenotaph to finish on the western carriageway of Main Street in front of Courts.
The 3km ‘Health Run’ will start outside of Courts on Main Street, proceed north to the Seawall, continue along the Seawall, turn right on to Camp Street, continue to Lamaha Street, turn left on Lamaha Street, proceed west to Main Street, turn left onto Main Street.
The race will continue in the southern direction to the Bank of Guyana before turning right onto Main Street (western side) and finishing at Courts. The ‘Health Run’ is aimed at continuing the Courts tradition of promoting a healthy lifestyle. Civil and corporate society as well as interested persons can participate in this aspect of the event.
The prizes for the male and female senior category include $100,000 for the winner; $75,000 for second place; $50,000 for third; $30,000 for fourth and $20,000 for fifth place. The prizes in the Masters category (Women 35 years and over and Men 40-54) are $60,000, $40,000 and $25,000 respectively.
A total of $200,000 in vouchers and hampers will be handed out to the Juniors, male and female, with the top prizes being $60,000; second gets $40,000; third $30,000; fourth $20,000, and fifth $10,000. The Masters Men (55 and above) will get a $15,000 hamper each.
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