Thousands watched the Intertrust Cayman Islands 2014 Marathon last Sunday (7) that saw not only the full marathon, but the half marathon, the wheelchair marathon and the four person relay.

See the attachments for the placing of the first 40 across the line in the various races, except for the wheelchair. Only two persons took part in that.

The full marathon was won by Justin Grunewald from Minneapolis for the third time in four years in 2 hours 47 minutes 11 seconds, and Steve Speirs in 2:56:53 was second whilst Tobias Mews in 3:08:50 was second.

Beth Florek in a time of 3:16:49 was the first woman across the line with Lizzy Haines, Derek Haines’ daughter, coming in as the second female in a time of 3:31:20 and Helki Weber was the third female in 3:50:06.

Marius Acker was first once again in the half marathon in a time of 1:19:14, with Benjamin Wuthrich (1:26:47) second and Samuel Young (1:28:40) third. The fastest woman in this event was Joanna Mansi (1:35:19).

The wheelchair race was won by Brian Siemann (55:31) ahead of Ryan Chalmers (1:03:21).

In the 4 person relay team Mdr A team (2:43:59) came in first, British Bull Dogs (2:48:31) was second and Mdr B team were third (3:06:02).

Over 1,250 adults ran the event. This year there was also a Kids Fun Run and the CUC high School Challenge.

And we must not forget Derek Haines – see iNews Briefs for the story. Our veteran marathon runner finished in 34^th place overall and reached his milestone of raising $1M for Hospice.

Congratulations Derek.

One mustn’t forget kudos to the organisers – race director Rhonda Kelly ably assisted by Laurie-Ann Holding and Bev Sinclair.

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Beth Florek – Facebook

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