Richard Jones of T&T Road Run­ners Club un­der­lined his sta­tus as the coun­try's pre­mier dis­tance run­ner with a sol­id vic­to­ry in Tues­day's 30th an­nu­al OW­TU But­ler 20 kilo­me­tre run cov­er­ing the dis­tance from San Fer­nan­do to Fyz­abad in one hour, nine min­utes and 14 sec­onds. .Guyanese duo Kelvin John­son (1.11:07) and Li­onel Dan­drade (1.12:47) fin­ished sec­ond and third re­spec­tive­ly. Cur­tis Cox placed fourth in 1.13:39. Elvis Turn­er of To­ba­go (1.14:23) was fifth, Sandi­no Nero (1.14:49) was sixth and Er­rol "Bald­head" Williams (1.15:55) was sev­enth. Then came Joel Bharat (1.19:16), Roland Bartholomew (1.19:43), Michael Pol­ly­dore (1.20:14), Can­tius Thomas (1.21:18) and Neil Stew­art (1.22:03).

T&T's dis­tance run­ning queen, pe­tite Tonya Nero of Ath­let­ics Cen­tral out-dis­tanced her ri­vals as well as most of the men, fin­ish­ing sev­enth over­all in a time of One hour, 15 min­utes and 46 sec­onds.

Ce­line Lestrade was the sec­ond woman home in 1.29:47, while Chris­tine Bap­tiste was third in 1.30:10. Jenelle Nedd (1.33:35) was fourth, April Bryan (1.37:10) was fifth and Thais Gutier­rez (1.37:32) fin­ished sixth. Mak­ing a sur­prise ap­pear­ance was five-time woman T&T Marathon cham­pi­on Mon­i­ca Sarmien­to, 55, of Venezuela in her 299th race. She placed sev­enth in 1.41:21. Just be­hind her was Chris­tine Reg­is (1.41:52), then came Juli­et John-Sam­baran (1.42:45) and Can­dice Beka­roo (1.48:47).

In the But­ler 4.5k event for 15-and-un­der run­ners, Ma­tias Nero, Tonya's broth­er, was the win­ner in 15 min­utes, 36 sec­onds. Kris­ton Charles of Grosvenor Pres­by­ter­ian was sec­ond in 15:50, and Ren­wyn Med­i­na was third in 16:08. It was a close fin­ish among the fe­males as Kadisha Charles of Grosvenor Pres­by­ter­ian clocked 20 min­utes, 57 sec­onds to fin­ish one sec­ond ahead of her school-mate Pre­cious Bal­four.

In third place in 21:03 was Ashakie Ha­gley, the great-grand-daugh­ter of Lynette "Granny" Luces.