CariFin Cross Country & Family Day

CARIFIN CROSS COUNTRY & FAMILY DAY 2006

Fun, Fitness & Friendship

LEGENDS OF CARIFIN

After fifteen years you will expect that we have people/participants who would have excelled in many ways. These are the people who have helped to give the event its distinct history... who have actually defined it.

We would like to look at these people’s contributions and pay tribute to them... We call them LEGENDS.

These are participants who have distinguished themselves by their performances; they have won three consecutives titles or more.

Read about their lives, contributions and successes at this event which sets the forum for some peoples’ most commendable performances in their lives and others their best ever. Permit it to be said that participants who venture, have enhanced their day-to-day confidence because of this event.

Nickolas Day

Nickolas Day of RBTT was one of the foundation members when the name was changed from Central Bank

Cross Country to Bankers’ Cross Country in 1991.

Winner of the first 4-part series, eight consecutive Royal Bank 5k run victories, five Inter-Bank Victor Ludorum titles, six OWTU Butler Classic 20K walk but had it not been for CariFin, his best of ten consecutive Racewalk victories would not have been possible.

He was influential in recommending/introducing the
walking race from that time. He won the first walking
race in 1991 to the last time he participated in 2001. He won the inaugural CariFin running race and from henceforth though expended from the walk he managed to always be in the top three over his ten year span.

Lander Rodney

Lander Rodney of COLFIRE won CariFin Cross Country male title for four (4) years straight. He was indomitable in his era. One of two runners who were able to accomplish such a feat. Once again a noteworthy fact is because of CariFin his four consecutive victories now stand as the best of his past.

He did it in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998.

Curtis Cox

Curtis Cox also of COLFIRE distinguished himself by being
the second person to win four Cross Country titles in succession. He had the distinction of being the top CariFin runner and also the top local road runner in the country
at the same time. But most famously he was known as the
man who ran a half marathon in Guyana in the morning,
flew back to Trinidad and ran and won the CariFin cross country in the evening. He was the champion from 1999 to 2002. You felt he could have continued winning for a very long time, if his company had stayed in the event but all the same because of CariFin he can claim to have won an international event on the same day he won a local event.

Rasheeda Mohammed

Rasheeda Mohammed represented Eastern Credit Union.
She was exceptionally talented as she won both the walk and running event three years in a row - 1999, 2000 & 2001, going beyond a dream dreamt of by her coach, Nickolas Day.

In 2002, her final year in the event she won the walking race and placed third in the run. She is the first woman to accomplish such a feat, the only women to come close is Nicole Budd of ECU who won two years straight and Kerry Wilson of CBTT who won twice in different years.

She is the only human yet to be confirmed by the Guinness book of records, to have won for three consecutive years in Cross Country, a walking race and a running race separated only by minutes.

It was a delight and pleasure to see her run - poetry in motion over the meandering course

Joel Bharat

Joel Bharat of FCB ruled the roost from 2003 to 2005. He rose from within the ranks and did well for himself, for
7 years he had been knocking on CariFin door of success, it finally opened in 2003. He made up for lost time by winning three titles in a row and took home the challenge trophy and had it not been for CariFin, three straight victories would have never to date been etched in the annuls under his name.

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