Bonaire, Georgia athlete Jared Hammond won the third annual Watermelon Crawl on Saturday morning, 9 July 2016, running the 3.1 miles in an event record 19:35. Matthew Fisher, a recent alumnus of the Tift County High cross country team, was runner-up for the second year in a row, running 19:58. Tim Bell and Bret Wagenhorst were in a close race for the top master runner spot, but Bell narrowly prevailed, taking third overall while Wagenhorst was fourth. Both runners were clocked in 21:10.
Allison Cauthen, another Bonaire runner, took the women's title, placing eighth overall in 24:26. Kaycee Goodman was second in the women's standings and ninth overall in 24:45. Guna Gunawan was the first woman master and third female finisher, placing tenth overall in 25:13. Master runner Gina Purvis was fourth on the women's side and eleventh overall in 25:23.
76 athletes finished Tifton, Georgia's third annual Watermelon Crawl 5K.
Top Ten Men, 2016 Tifton, Georgia, Watermelon Crawl 5K
- 19:34.5 ~ Jared Hammond (M, 36) Bonaire, GA
- 19:57.1 ~ Matthew Fisher (M, 18)
- 21:09.5 ~ Tim Bell (M, 57)
- 21:09.9 ~ Bret Wagenhorst (M, 53)
- 23:20.5 ~ James Hawke (M, 49)
- 24:10.6 ~ Shannon McCook (M, 44)
- 24:16.4 ~ Jonathan Jones (M, 44)
- 25:25.2 ~ Berry Clay (M, 20)
- 27:08.3 ~ Nicholas Urquhart (M, 37)
- 27:08.9 ~ Monty Watson (M, 44)
Top Ten Women, 2016 Tifton, Georgia, Watermelon Crawl 5K
- 24:25.4 ~ Allison Cauthen (F, 27) Bonaire, GA
- 24:44.9 ~ Kaycee Goodman (F, 17)
- 25:13.0 ~ Guna Gunawan (F, 44)
- 25:22.9 ~ Gina Purvis (F, 57)
- 25:26.2 ~ Leighanna Perez (F, 14)
- 25:53.6 ~ Michelle Goen (F, 40)
- 27:20.4 ~ Courtney Thompson (F, 34)
- 27:49.2 ~ Sheila Oliver (F, 52)
- 28:57.8 ~ Renata Elad (F, 51)
- 29:22.8 ~ Meagan Riley-Neuman (F, 25)
Winners of the Tifton, Georgia, Watermelon Crawl 5K, 2014 - 2016 | |||
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Date | Men | Women | Finishers |
12 July 2014 | 19:58, Lorenzo Gomez | 24:47, Penny Peters | 112 |
11 July 2015 | 19:54, Tony Edmondson | 22:51, Heather Hall | 65 |
9 July 2016 | 19:35, Jared Hammond | 24:26, Allison Cauthen | 76 |
Links
- Complete results of the 2016 Watermelon Crawl 5K
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vQS128iSBIPvsTU0tmx0JJFdOhYVno8PnclBOE-JXrg/pubhtml
- 2015 story, “Edmondson and Hall lower records at Tifton's Watermelon Crawl”
https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2015/07/watermelon-crawl-2015.html
- Watermelon Crawl 5K
http://thewatermeloncrawl.weebly.com
- Find upcoming watermelon runs, races, and crawls on the Trouble Afoot! racing calendar
http://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
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