Adam Cole debuts in the OGIER Deloite BVI Half Marathon by winning the 13.1 mile event in 1 hour 28 minutes and 56 seconds. Photo: BVIAA

The winners pictured at the Tortola Sports Club award ceremony and breakfast. Photo: Tortola Sports Club

Zebalon McLean set a new National Record with his time of 1:34.45. Photo: Tortola Sports Club

All in all, 40 of the 64 finished under two hours in the event that has had six different winners, including McLean, who became the BVI’s fastest over the distance, taking over a minute off Mark Downing’s five-year old National Record of 1:35.52 established in Dominica on November 25, 2006, after running 1:34.45.

Steadman, also making her Half Marathon debut—chopped more than a minute off Trinidad and Tobago’s Shermin Lasaldo’s November 20, 2010 course record of 1:35.35, after stopping the clock at 1:34.09.

After six years of course record improvements, the three way battle at the top between Cole, Steve Asson and St. Thomas’ Thomas Layer was settled after former champ Steven Asson faded in the last mile, as Cole produced the second slowest winning mark in the history of the event, covering the 13.1 miles from the A. O. Shirley Recreation Grounds to Port Purcell, down to Pockwood Pond and return in 1 hour, 28 minutes and 56 seconds.

Final Results. Men: 1. Adam Cole, 1 hour 28 minutes and 56 seconds. 2. Thomas Layer, 1:29:37. 3. Steven Asson, 1:31:04. 4. Zebalon McClean, 1:34:45. (National Record. Old Record, Marc Downing, November 25, 2006) 5. Curvin Andrews, 1:38:46. 6. Ravindra Sukhu, 1:39:18. 7. Adrian Dale, 1:42:24. 8. Charles Bartholomew, 1:43:35. 9. Mario Reuber, 1:47:32. 10. Kevin O'Neal, 1:48:37. 11. Richard Morgan, 1:50:49. 12. Jonathon McCarthy, 1:52:10. 13. Charles Kerins, 1:52:40. 14. David Whiteley, 1:52:56. 15. Chris Conway, 1:54:02. 16. Rupert Allen, 1:54:14. 17. James Carr, 1:54:46. 18. Will Dehoc, 1:55:15. 19. Aron Takeuchi, 1:57:37. 20. Andrew “Tubes” Thompson, 1:59:03. 21. Simon Crook, 1:59:27. 7. 22. Howard Moore, 1:59:37. 23. Alex Jarvis, 1:59:39. 24. Ray Wearmouth, 1:59:51. 25. Garfield Neita, 2:03:05. 26. Peter Richenstein, 2:05:40. 27. Bill McKay, 2:08:29. 28. Mathew Moss, 2:09:35. 29. Chris Ghiorse, 2:10:07. 30. Filip Kreutzer, 2:11:35. 31. Gabriel Obregon, 2:17:08. 32. Stephen Beard, 2:58:50.2. 33. Robin Tattersall, 3:18:34.

Women: 1. Meriel Steadman, 1:34:09. (New Record. Old Record, Shermin Lasaldo, Trinidad & Tobago, 1:35.35, November 20, 2010.) 2. Maria Mays, 1:40:18. 3. Clare Louise Whiley, 1:44:13. 4. Joy Bryan-Silva, 1:44:23. 5. Megan Murooch, 1:45:21. 6. Ashley Macko, 1:45:57. 7. Angela Berry, 1:53:12. 8. Philomena Robertson, 1:55:08. 9. Kim Takeuchi, 1:55:31. 10. Christine Thomas, 1:55:34. 11.Victoria Bezemer, 1:55:58. 12. Ni Made Oniasih, 1:56:56.13. Anne Monroe, 1:57:08. 14. Kay Reddy, 1:57:18. 15. Sarah Hayes, 1:57:23. 16. Lisa Parfitt, 1:58:03. 17. Leslie Macko, 2:01:21. 18. Elizabeth Killeen, 2:01:54. 19. Joanna Wilkenson, 2:02:51. 20. Teal Hetrick, 2:04:08. 21. Stacy Diandiala, 2:05:17. 22. Casey McNutt, 2:05:41. 23. Michelle Jones, 2:06:14. 24. Tiarra Lindemann, 2:06:15. 25. Jacqueline Wilson, 2:07:27. 26. Dara Smith, 2:15:17. 27. Debbie Bell, 2:17:10. 28. Noni Georges, 2:28:00. 29. Monika Danic, 2:29:21. 30. Anna Kinkead, 2:49:26. 31. Gaelle Maduro, 3:00:15.