Richard Jones took first place in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) an­nu­al 10k road race yes­ter­day af­ter­noon at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.Jones, 34, a sea­soned long dis­tance run­ner, took the gold medal ahead last year's cham­pi­on To­bag­on­ian Cur­tis Cox by just un­der 90 sec­onds.Cox fin­ished third be­hind Kelvin John­son.

The event con­sist­ed of two races, a one-lap race and the main event, the 10k.The one-lap race start­ed and end­ed at the same point, QRC, with Ja­son Par­ris win­ning in a time of 13 min­utes and 30 sec­onds.The 10k event start­ed out­side White­hall and took a field of 177 run­ners a full lap around the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, through Sad­dle Road, Long Circlar Road, then along Tra­garete Road on­to Cipri­ani Boule­vard to fin­ish op­po­site Queen's Roy­al Col­lege.

32:12;

2. Kelvin John­son 33:11;

3. Cur­tis Cox 33:40;

4. Jules La Rode 33:47;

5. Li­onel Dan­drade 34:27.

One Lap Race:

1. Ja­son Par­ris 13:30;

2. Vish­nu Per­sad 14:40;

3. Vic­to­rio Hawkins 15:16;

4. Ju­nior Lawrence 15:23:

5. Ryan Joseph 15:30.