Guyana’s Cleveland Forde recorded a personal best in the half marathon at the IAAF/CAIXA event held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil on Sunday.

According to a release from the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) Forde placed 58th of 90 entrants and recorded a personal best time of 1:10:20 in the event.
The event, which was a point-to-point race, started at 09:15 hours, 21 degrees Celsius temperature in front of Hotel Intercontinental and wound its way through the streets of Rio to finish at the Flamingo Beaches.

Among the dignitaries in attendance was IAAF President, Mr. Lamine Diack. Cleveland’s performance placed him 11th of the 23 starters in the CAIXA South American half marathon championships which was run concurrently.

The World half marathon championships was followed at 09:45 by the staging of the Rio half marathon event which saw more than 1600 participants, the AAG release stated.