VIRGIN GORDA-Julius Farley fended off Reuben Stoby's challenge, relegating his rival to second place in the Virgin Gorda Half Marathon, for the third successive year.
VIRGIN GORDA-Julius Farley fended off Reuben Stoby's challenge, relegating his rival to second place in the Virgin Gorda Half Marathon, for the third successive year.
Beyonce Defreitas of the British Virgin Islands is headed to Flo Golden South along with her Sprint Tech Track Club teammates.
When her friend Jen Shelton got injured while skiing in Italy, Bree Ray of Las Vegas, Nevada, had one simple goal in Saturday's 3rd Tortola Torture.
It was like David and Goliath. Flemming, the Elmore Stoutt High School House that has won 15 titles versus Lettsome House, the on with the least championships with eight, competing in the 47th edition of the event on Wednesday and Thursday at the A. O. Shirley Grounds.
With the exception of the BVI Half Marathon, Rueben Stoby has been dominating the local road racing scene for the last three years, earning successive 2 miles, 5K and 10K victories on both Tortola and Virgin Gorda.
03/17/17
While Althea Scatiffe-the territory's largest school which has never lost since it was formed in 1983 dominated the A Division competition with 433 points-the real battle was among the other seven teams.
03/16/17
Led by Victrix Ludorum K'Zariah Harrigan, Alexandrian Maduro reclaimed the Inter Primary Schools B Division crown on Wednesday afternoon at the A. O. Shirley Grounds, winning for the first time since 2013.
03/16/17
Following the introduction of pre events last Wednesday for the first time in the history of the Inter Primary Schools Track and Field Championships, schools from Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke engaged in stiff competition on Wednesday and Thursday at the A. O. Shirley Grounds.
12/06/16
It wasn't the fastest, but definitely the most competitive race in the the 11-year history of the Delioite-Ogier BVI Sunrise Half Marathon, that ended with St. Thomas' Ruth Ann David improving her own course record on Saturday.
11/15/16
While Reuben Stoby and Rosmond Johnson were securing a repeat of their respective Mourant Ozannes College Classic Series titles, young Sam Potgieter was stealing the show with another record run to close the One Mile Division.
11/08/16
After coming within three seconds of Renold Brown's 13-year old Virgin Gorda College Classic Series record in his last outing, Reuben Stoby wanted to take down the mark on Saturday morning, but thought long and hard about his afternoon battle with Julius Farley for the Ceres Juices 10K Series overall crown.
10/25/16
Khadjja Sampson who won the 2015 OECS Swimming Championships 100m freestyle bronze medal as an eight-year old, shattered her own Mournat Ozannes College Classic Series One Mile Girls Division record on Saturday.
10/20/16
Reuben Stoby narrowly missed the Mourant Ozannes College Classic Series record on Saturday, as the race was a pink affair in the Valley, Virgin Gorda, where the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College teamed up the Valley Sound Lions supporting the fight against breast cancer. Participants sported pink or carried pink balloons and took advantage of free post-race breast exams organized by the Lions and conducted by HLSCC nurse Patricia Hanley.
10/04/16
While Gayle Lindsay, a former 400/800m was on holiday visiting her twin sister and churning out a victory in the process and Rebuen Stoby was continuing his winning ways, the Rotary Sunrise Club was upending defending champions Rotary Club of Tortola, who hadn't lost a Service Clubs Cross Country race in the last 11 seasons of the Mourant Ozannes College Classic Series.
09/21/16
Including a record 78 in the One Mile Division, a near record 262 participants-just three off the mark-kicked off the 21st Highland Spring College Classic Series at the HLSCC in Paraquita Bay on Saturday morning.
09/12/16
Ahead of the 21st College Classic Series opener on Sept 17, fall road racing on Tortola resumed with Saturday's Ceres Juices 10K Series in Carrot Bay, where Reuben Stoby and Maria Mays were the respective male and female winners.
08/26/16
Sprinter Tahesia Harrigan-Scott left her third Olympic Games disappointed after an unlooked for performance of 11.54 seconds in her 100m heat in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished sixth. Compounding matters was the fact that the three times Olympian ran and unchallenged 11.40 days before she departed for the competition.
08/08/16
When sprinter Ashely Kelly learned from Chef de Mission Stephanie Russ Penn that she would be the flag bearer, she was totally surprised.
07/24/16
TORTOLA-After 30 years of participating, Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, won the territory's first medal in its history at the IAAF World Jr. Championships, when he claimed 400m Hurdles bronze on Saturday in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The BVI has been participating in IAAF World Jr. competition since 1986.
07/23/16
TORTOLA-Kyron McMaster won his 400m Hurdles semifinal heat on Friday evening and automatically advanced to today's final in the XVI IAAF World Jr. Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He will face the starter's gun at 1:15 p.m. today in search of a medal, running from lane seven.