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Hagley, Nero crowned Cross Country champsKwame Laurence :: Trinidad Express :: 30.11.2015Kelvin Johnson was the first athlete to finish the men's eight kilometre event at the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain, on Sunday. But it was 29-year-old Matthew Hagley who was crowned national cross country champion. Johnson returned a time of 28 minutes, four seconds at the NGC/NAAA (National Association of Athletics Administrations) Cross Country Championships, finishing more than 100 metres ahead of second-placed Hagley. Johnson, though, is Guyanese, and while, as a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Road Runners Club (TTRRC), he was eligible to compete on Sunday, his nationality prevented him from becoming the T&T champion. That honour went to Hagley, the Defence Force runner clocking 28:31 to hold off Curtis Cox, the 47-year-old finishing third overall in 28:37. Johnson produced a strong front-running effort. Halfway through the race, he enjoyed an 80-metre cushion on Hagley, and widened the gap over the next four kilometres. Tonya Nero was in a race of her own in the women's 6K. It took the 27-year-old Athletics Central runner 24 minutes and 18 seconds to complete her three laps of the two-kilometre loop. Nero was unchallenged for the top spot, enjoying a huge cushion on Memphis Pioneers' Dawnel Collymore, the runner-up in 26:37. April Francis (28:40) finished third. Iley Bruce was dominant in the boys' under-20 6K. The Dovers athlete got to the finish line in 21:51 for a wide margin of victory on second-placed Ashton Gill (23:00). INDIVIDUAL HONOUR ROLL
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