- Charmaine AustinHeadley Forbes, treasurer of the Jamaica College Development Committee (left), accepts gifts from Debra Lopez, public relations manager (Private Banking Centre) of sponsors Dehring Bunting & Golding Limited at last week's DG&B 10K press conference.
LINTON MCKENZIE headlines a strong field of athletes in the Dehring Bunting & Golding 10K which runs off this afternoon at 4:00.
The Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association-sanctioned event, organised by the Jamaica College Development Committee, is held annually in honour of that school's former headmaster Hugo Chambers. This is the 13th staging.
More than 300 runners from schools and clubs across the island will test their mettle against the likes of McKenzie and his Windalco teammates Robert Watson, Lerone Lawson and Omar Brooks plus Andrew Gutzmore of Ebony in the men's division.
Female participants include Hilda Baker and Nadine Henry of Windalco and schoolgirls Shana Richards, Tiffany Richards, Ann-Marie Sanchez and Venecia Johnson of Red Hills All Age, Tamika Thomas of Tacius Golding High and Meleshia Spencer of Vere.
The 10K starts at Jamaica College on Hope Road and will see athletes run along Old Hope Road, then on to Mona Road, then Papine Road and back along Hope Road to finish at Jamaica College.
A special feature of this year's event is the JAMWEB-sponsored one-mile race for Special Olympic athletes as well as children 13 years and under.
That event starts at 2:00 p.m. at the Texaco Service Station in Papine and ends at Jamaica College.
Entry forms are available until noon today at Dehring Bunting and Golding locations islandwide and Jamaica College.
