By Tamica Garnett

SHOWING no signs of letting up,Guyana’s Cleveland “Little Kenyan” Forde, and US-based Euleen Jossiah-Tanner,continued their dominance in the 10km event by ruling the open category in yesterday’s sixth edition of the COURTS 10km Road Race.Promising young athletes Joanna Archer and Odwin Tudor secured victories in the female and male junior categories, respectively.Complementing his win in the Massy 10km Road Race earlier this month, Forde clocked 32 minutes 40.4 seconds to once again relegate longtime rival Winston Missigher to another 10km second place finish.

Despite being unable to achieve his goal of going below the 30 minute mark, Forde has nonetheless enjoyed a dominant year thus far; once again winning the CARICOM 10km in July, the Massy 10km, as well as finishing second in the Jubilee 10km in May;as he prepares for the three part South American 10km which begins next month.
Missigher, who managed a come-from-behind victory over Forde in the Jubilee 10km, and has since failed to find his footing to pull another one over Forde, ended his performance yesterday in a time of 33 minutes 15.1 seconds.
The timings showed improved performances for both Forde and Missigher, who clocked 33 minutes 11 seconds and 33 minutes 31 seconds, respectively, three weeks ago at the Massy 10km.
Also keeping it below 34 minutes was Cleveland Thomas, who took third in 33 minutes 26.7 seconds, and Nathaniel Giddings, touching down at the finishing line in 33 minutes 46.9 seconds.
Larry Nicholas rounded out the top five with a time of 34 minutes 16.1 seconds.
Josiah-Tanner, who had missed out on the Massy 10km, returned in the Courts 10km to make it six out of six as she took another title at the annual event;leaving no doubts as to who is Guyana’s leading distance lady. It was another easy win for her as she clocked a comfortable 40 minutes 12.20 seconds.
Her closest competition came from Claudrice McKoy, who covered the journey in 41 minutes 42.9 seconds.

Massy 10km female winner, Ashanti Scott, didn’t dominate this time around but still found herself on the podium with a third place finish. Just on the heels of McKoy,Scott finished third in a time of 41:56.6s, improving on the 42:21.s she clocked for the Massy 10km win.
Alicia Jack (45:36.6s) and Shion Boyer (45:50.4s) rounded out the top five for the women’s open category.
In the junior category,several of the talented youngsters expected to represent Guyana next month at the Inter-Guiana ‘Goodwill” Games were out and represented themselves well.
From the team,Delroy Leitch and Anfernee Headecker finished third and fourth, respectively, in the male junior category. Meanwhile,on the girls’ side,behind Archer was Tabitha Bowman.
In other category wins, the masters (40 – 54 years old) win went to Ian Archibald, who was followed by Gary Hartog and Lindon Harrison. Taking the podium positions of the Masters (55 and over) were Llewellyn Gardener, Errol Warde, and Kenneth Prescott. Ruling the women’s 35 and over Masters was Cyrleen Phillips, followed by Carla Benjamin, and Carla Adams.