By NAN Sports Editor
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Nov. 8, 2019: Over 200 Caribbean born runners completed the New York City Marathon on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019.
Puerto Rico’s Jaime Julia, 34,of Richmond Hill, NY was the top finisher for the Caribbean, completing the 26.2 miles course in 2:23:04 to place 33rd out of over 53,513 runners.
Jamaica’s Leighton Spencer of Chester, NY was the second top finisher for the Caribbean, finishing in a time of 2:48:51 at 563rd of 53 thousand 513 entrants. He was followed in the third spot by Blue Curry of Nassau, Bahamas who finished in a time of 2:53:03 to place 833 over-all.
This year’s overall finishers from the Caribbean also included Jamaica’s minister of health, Christopher Tufton of the Pacers Running Club of Kingston, Jamaica, who finished in a time of 6:04:08 to place 49,255 of 53,513.
The other finishers from the Caribbean by country, times and placements were as follows:
Antigua and Barbuda
Gregory Tannis of Brooklyn, NY – finished in 4:51:27 to place 34,769 of 53,509.
Aruba
Lana Gobert of Noord, Aruba – finished in 3:00:14 to place 1,583 of 53,509.
Joaquin Trigt of Savaneta, Aruba – finished in 4:14:26 to place at 21,006 of 53,509.
Bahamas
Blue Curry of Nassau, Bahamas – finished in 2:53:03 to place 833 of 53,509.
Jonathan Massie of Tucker, GA – finished in 3:07:11 to place 2,253 of 53,509.
Elizabeth Lessard of Welland, Canada – finished in 5:00:45 to place 37,892 of 53,509.
Shavaughn Blades, Nassau, Bahamas – finished 5:13:39 to place 41,039 of 53,509.
Linda Williams of Nassau, Bahamas – finished 5:26:22 to place 43,689 of 53,509.
Sheryl Simmons of NY, NY – finished 5:37:07 to place 45,647 of 53,509.
Belize
Ethel Jenkins of Plainsboro, NJ – finished in 6:14:41 to place 50,100 of 53,509.
British Virgin Islands
Siobhan Crise of The Joggers Club of Westport, CT – finished 4:26:37 to place 25,720 of 53,509.
Cuba
Diana Perez of Tampa, FL – finished in 5:34:31 to place 45,218 of 53,509.
Dominica
Thomas Baggesen of Lille Skensved, Denmark – finished 4:24:13 to place 24,796 of 53,509.
Janelle Prevost of Brooklyn, NY – finished in 4:37:58 to place 30,021 of 53,509.
Vanessa Davis of Chicago, IL – finished in 5:35:04 to place 45,298 of 53,509.
Monique Durand of Fort Lauderdale, FL – finished in 5:41:32 to place 46,352 of 53,509.
Dominican Republic
Luciano Medina finished in 2:53:30 to place 865
Jesus Nunez – finished in 2:54:44 to place 957
Euris Jimenez – finished in 3:09:48 to place 2,558
Cesar Estevez – finished in 3:10:17 to place 2,615
Jesus Perez finished in 3:14:17 to place 3,193
Ramon Pina finished in 3:17:36 to place 3,672
Alfredo Gomez -finished in 3:25:59 to place 5,161
Jose Ovalles – finished in 3:26:23 to place 5,265
Cristiana Paredes – finished in 3:28:15 to place 5,700
Emmanuel Diaz – finished in 3:31:15 to place 6,470
Jose Quezada Gomez – finished in 3:40:12 to place 8,722
Cesar Nuñez – finished in 3:43:39 to place 9,640
Johnny Vargas – finished in 3:44:41 to place 9,935
Franklin Monegro – finished in 3:49:21 to place 11,473
Gabriel De La Rosa Mendoza – finished in 3:50:04 to place 11,735
Ariela Ortiz – finished in 3:50:45 to place11,991
Miguelina Feliz – finished in 3:53:51 to place 13,077
Samuel Gomez – finished in 3:54:39 to place 13,372
Freddy Evangelista – finished in 3:56:08 to place 14,000
Jose Velez Then – finished in 3:56:10 to place 14,010
Osvaldo Aquino – finished in 3:57:19 to place 14,535
Hilario Nivar – finished in 3:58:47 to place 15,226
Roberto Rodriguez – finished in 3:59:30 to place 15,596
German Eusebio – finished in 4:02:42 to place 16,784
Elvira Cepeda – finished in 4:02:42 to place 16,787
Regner Evertz – finished in 4:06:11 to place 17,957
Rafael Hiciano – finished in 4:09:37 to place 19,188
Giovanny Montilla – finished in 4:11:05 to place 19,715
Francisco Gil – finished in 4:12:04 to place 20,101
Erisonny Taveras – finished in 4:12:57 to place 20,397
Jordhan Gil – finished in 4:13:48 to place 20,766
Fernando Rosario – finished in 4:13:50 to place 20,776
Richard Martinez De Castro – finished in 4:14:58 to place 21,252
Juan Zorrilla Avila – finished in 4:15:04 to place 21,278
Luis Tatem – finished from 4:15:36 to place 21,475
Ysaira Gutierrez – finished in 4:16:27 to place 21,798
Rafid Ynirio – finished in 4:16:47 to place 21,943
Kathrin Guerrero – finished in 4:17:04 to place 22,046
Diego Castellanos – finished in 4:18:05 to place 22,450
Eurania Sarita – finished in 4:18:28 to place 22,604
Franklyn Ramirez – finished in 4:19:09 to place 22,869
Juan Gil – finished in 4:20:25 to place 23,347
Francisco Peralta – finished in 4:23:20 to place 24,463
Pedro Ortiz – finished in 4:24:04 to place 24,746
Abraham Naranjo – finished in 4:24:15 to place 24,820
Luis Suarez – finished in 4:24:27 to place 24,904
Raquel Vasquez – finished in 4:24:53 to place 25,054
Teofilo Garcia Matias – finished in 4:25:22 to place 25,251
Maria Vilorio – finished in 4:26:30 to place 25,667
Guaroa Noboa – finished in 4:28:30 to place 26,475
Patricia Almonte – finished in 4:29:21 to place 26,825
Jose Lopez – finished in 4:30:02 to place 27,142
Gregory Martinez – finished in 4:30:38 to place 27,390
Ana Sanchez – finished in 4:33:05 to place 28,279
Juan Ovalle – finished in 4:34:51 to place 28,937
Julio Perez – finished in 4:37:43 to place 29,941
Manuel Pascal – finished in 4:37:51 to place 29,987
Natalia Mansfield – finished in 4:40:33 to place 30,940
Ana Capano – finished in 4:40:34 to place 30,949
Patricia Del Rosario finished in 4:45:56 to place 32,878
Rafael Bello – finished in 4:46:22 to place 33,021
Josefina Rosario – finished in 4:49:40 to place 34,185
Rosmery Madera – finished in 4:50:06 to place 34,296
Olga Segura Rodriguez – finished in 4:51:41 to place 34,851
Lourdes Guzman – finished in 4:54:11 to place 35,677
Gidel Cedeno – finished in 4:54:38 to place 35,837
Ricardo Canela – finished in 4:54:43 to place 35,873
Leonardo Nouel – finished in 4:55:12 to place 36,058
Josefina Russo – finished in 4:56:44 to place 36,574
Lorena Gutierrez – finished in 5:00:23 to place 37,773
Ramon Camejo – finished in 5:04:17 to place 38,794
Cesar Villanueva – finished in 5:04:28 to place 38,848
Angela Ramirez – finished in 5:05:31 to place 39,113
Jesus Pena Del Villar – finished in 5:06:44 to place 39,397
Madelin Sanchez – finished in 5:07:05 to place 39,500
Melissa Santana – finished in 5:08:33 to place 39,832
Luis Villar – finished in 5:10:55 to place 40,403
Ann Alvarez – finished in 5:15:35 to place 41,481
Alicia Moya – finished in 5:18:17 to place 42,057
Emmanuel Mejia – finished in 5:27:37 to place 43,946
Martina Romero – finished in 5:30:35 to place 44,546
Leticia Garrido – finished in 5:33:03 to place 44,985
Jose Uribe Mendoza – finished in 5:33:30 to place 45,052
Katya Baez – finished in 5:37:23 to place 45,683
Victor Polanco – finished in 5:38:31 to place 45,853
Jeimmy Guerra – finished in 5:38:53 to place 45,908
Ruth Montilla – finished in 5:43:34 to place 46,687
Guillermo Herrera – finished in 5:48:48 to place 47,402
Carmen Fernandez – finished in 5:52:07 to place 47,870
Grecia Lora – finished in 5:55:52 to place 48,338
Juan Alvarez – finished in 6:00:42 to place 48,931
Percio Jimenez Ortiz – finished in 6:02:09 to place 49,077
Pily Mendoza – finished in 6:08:33 to place 49,649
Andres Rodriguez – finished in 6:08:38 to place 49,658
Joan Ferreira – finished in 6:30:08 to place 51,133
Leysli Mateo – finished in 6:51:01 to place 52,062
Cristina Rodriguez – finished in 7:14:40 to place 52,730
Fernando Alba – finished in 7:28:28 to place 52,997 of 53,509.
Grenada
Jude Phillip of Mount Vernon, NY who finished in a time of 6:19:42 to place 50,469 of 53,513.
Philomena Robertson of Road Town, British Virgin Islands who finished at 6:58:51 to place 52,288 of 53,513.
Guyana
Rajesh Mahadeo of Ozone Park, NY finished in a time of 4:10:19 to place 19,449 of 53,513.
Valarie Hing of Brooklyn, NY finished in a time of 4:46:56 to place 33,226 of 53,513.
Clive Brathwaite of Manhattan, NY finished in a time of 4:58:34 to place 37,211 of 53,513.
Marcia Shury of Brooklyn, NY finished in a time of 6:16:21 to place 50,236 of 53,513.
Haiti
Chris Wichert of NY, NY finished in a time of 4:04:21 to place 17,335
Regine Vilaire-Zukas of Woodmere, NY and the Paragon Sports Run Club finished in a time of 4:20:30 to place 23,375.
Bernard Vivy of Astoria, NY finished in a time of 4:31:13 to place 27,586
Dominique Bonnin of Mudaison, France, finished in a time of 5:50:32 to place 47,636
Johanne Georges of NY, NY finished in a time of 6:23:58 to finish 50,719 of 53,513.
Jamaica
Leighton Spencer – finished in 2:48:51 to place 563
Dale James finished in 3:59:53 to place 15,789
Lyle Kirlew finished in 4:00:15 to place 15,948
Wolda Grant finished in 4:02:42 to place 16,785
Samantha Harrison finished in 4:09:49 to place19,273
Rohan Walker finished in 4:10:47 to place 19,606
Jonathan Dougall finished in 4:20:19 to place 23,295
Alicia South finished in 4:20:51 to place 23,526
Neil Williams finished in 4:29:28 to place 26,886
Stacey Peart finished in 4:43:30 to place 32,017
Vanessa Joseph- Stockhausen finished in 4:44:33 to place 32,408
Martine Scott finished in 4:50:06 to place 34,293
Henry Pratt finished in 4:52:46 to place 35,208
Lennox Channer finished in 5:33:24 to place 45,038
Charis Lee finished in 5:33:25 to place 45,042
Nichola Myers finished in 5:42:19 to place 46,480
Shernett Hawthorne finished in 5:48:27 to place 47,351
Simone Edwards finished in 5:50:32 to place 47,637
Joseph McGibbon finished in 5:58:08 to place 48,657
Christopher Tufton finished in 6:04:08 to place 49,255
Lyndsey McDonnough finished in 6:04:11 to place 49,258
Audrey Campbell finished in 6:29:22 to place 51,086
Julian Hector finished in 6:42:30 to place 51,740 of 53,513.
Netherland Antilles
Reinaldo Bibolini of Miami, FL finished in 4:40:18 to place 30,861
Chantal van der Giessen finished in 5:13:59 to place 41,114 of 53,513.
Puerto Rico
Jaime Julia finished in 2:23:04 to place 33
Andres Kauffman finished in 3:46:24 to place 10,460
Maribel Muriel finished in 4:06:43 to place 18,150
Wigberto Robles finished in 4:08:36 to place18,844
Oti Pizarro finished in 4:14:02 to place 20,851
Wiljalis Sanabria finished in 4:19:25 to place 22,968
Nathaniel Rivera finished in 4:21:31 to place 23,784
Tomas Mendez finished in 4:31:09 to place 27,570
Luis García finished in 4:32:42 to place 28,126
Rosendo Rodriguez finished in 4:37:41 to place 29,926
Daniel Ramos finished in finished in 4:39:53 to place 30,706
Samuel Pagan Diaz finished in 5:03:42 place 38,627
James Rivera finished in 6:39:20 to place 51,607
Giovanni Rivera finished in 7:54:04 to place 53,278 of 53,513.
St. Kitts And Nevis
Glennis Phoenix of Bronx, NY finished in 5:00:17 to place 37,739 of 53,513.
St. Lucia
Anthony Johnson of Lincoln, CA finished in a time of 4:34:40 to place 28,863
Christine Gerson Pierre finished in 4:39:48 to place 30,669
Vanessa Frederick finished in 5:39:37 to place 46,026
Pamella Edward finished in 5:45:25 to place 46,975
Lorraine Tobierre finished in 6:55:28 to place 52,192
Nicholas Jean-Baptiste of Vieux Fort, St. Lucia finished in 7:17:02 to place 52,782 of 53,513.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Jacqueline Gregg of NY, NY and Black Girls Run, finished in 5:23:56 to place 43,215 of 53,513.
Trinidad and Tobago
Avee-Dominique Martineau finished in 3:25:31 to place 5,052
Loren Caldon finished in 3:39:41 to place 8,580
Gregory Hazell finished in 3:44:01 to place 9,750
Daniel Reece finished in 3:45:16 to place 10,116
Raymond Samms finished in 3:50:54 to place 12,037
Joshua Gaskin finished in 3:54:12 to place 13,202
Sean Peters finished in 4:00:50 to place 16,150
Marlon Bascombe finished in 4:12:06 to place 20,108
Roger Roberts finished in 4:14:14 to place 20,925
Rachel Howard finished in 4:21:55 to place 23,934
Natalie Dorset finished in 4:34:27 to place 28,783
Marissa Moreno finished in 4:43:55 to place 32,171
Sasha Manoosingh finished in 4:43:55 to place 32,172
Ann James finished in 4:49:24 to place 34,094
Timothy Paty finished in 4:50:35 to place 34,469
Lesley Lewis-Alleyne finished in 5:05:37 to place 39,137
Zakia Haywood finished in 5:14:38 to place 41,275
Sonia Lewis finished in 5:15:58 to place 41,577
Anne Moe Mc David finished in 5:22:00 to place 42,805
René Hernandez finished in 6:03:33 to place 49,189
Indarjit Roopchand finished in 7:14:57 to place 52,742
Anne-Marie Roberts finished in 7:22:29 to place 52,896 of 53,513.
DC United Team To Play Exhibition Game On St. Croix
Four-time championship team D.C. United will play a postseason match against Bermuda’s national team on Friday November 15th, at the Bethlehem Soccer Complex on St. Croix, the only FIFA-certified pro turf pitch in the Caribbean.
The exhibition game, which kicks off at 7 p.m., is part of D.C. United’s five-day post season tour of the Territory being coordinated by the Office of the Governor; the Department of Tourism; the Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation; the U.S. Virgin Islands Soccer Association; and Events DC. The roster for the postseason tour presented by Events DC will be announced in the coming days.
“Through our partnership with Events DC, a postseason tour of the Virgin Islands gives D.C. United an opportunity to continue to expand our brand and showcase the club in front of a new audience. We want to thank the Virgin Islands and St. Croix for their hospitality and interest in hosting D.C. United and the Bermuda National Team,” Dave Kasper, D.C. United General Manager and VP of Soccer Operations, said.
On Saturday November 16th, the team and their families will explore the island on a guided tour before leaving the next day.
Tickets for the soccer game are $20 and will be available from Friday, November 8 at Le Baron Men’s Clothier in the Sunny Isle Shopping Center, Jane’s Bridal Boutique across from Plaza Extra West, and the One Love Service Station in La Grand Princesse on St. Croix. On St. Thomas, patrons can visit Urban Threadz for tickets.
Entrance is free for students accompanied by a parent or guardian.
