Local runners for OECS Nemwil race in Grenada

The Antigua and Barbuda Athletics Association has been preparing for the event mapping out the course and ensuring the best runners in the region have been invited to compete in this prestigious race.

Last year’s winner — the legendary Pamenos Ballentyne of St Vincent and the Grenadines — has proven to all that it would take a mammoth effort to take the title from him, having won the event 11 times.

St Lucia’s Zepherinus Joseph won in 2004 when the event was staged in St Kitts and Trinidad and Tobago’s Curtis Cox has come close on many occasions.

Another Vincentian Adi Carrington has in recent years dominated the women’s category winning comfortably from her closest rivals over the last three years.

Athletes are expected from Trinidad and Tobago and other OECS member states as this is an Open event which usually has a large contingent from TT participating in all the senior categories.

NEMWIL has sponsored this event for the past 15 years and joined with the OECS Sports Desk, the Athletics Associations of the OECS led by Keith Joseph and the National Amateur Athletics Association in TT to ensure Grenada was given all the support they needed to host the race in 2004 after Hurricane Ivan had ravaged the island.

This year’s event once again promises a scenic OECS course, a field of senior and junior athletes male and female, excitement, some of the best runners in the region and of course the warm hospitality of the Antiguan people.

For further information contact Leslie Williams at e-mail address: les2316@hotmail.com.