$30,000 in American Prize Money on Line at Publix Gasparilla Half Marathon This Weekend
Via Race Results Weekly on February 10, 2014
Published by LetsRun.com, February 21, 2014
USA ATHLETES FLOCKING TO GASPARILLA DISTANCE CLASSIC FEBRUARY 23
Attracted by a special $30,000 prize money purse, American athletes will head for Tampa, Fla., for the Publix Gasparilla Distance Classic Race Weekend (Feb. 21 – 23). The event, best known in the past for the 15-K distance, is putting their half-marathon front and center this year with special prize money for USA athletes.
“We’re thrilled to bring elite racing back to the streets of Tampa,” said Susan Harmeling, the event’s executive director through a statement. “The city’s biggest running weekend already offers an incredible air of excitement and distance for every age and fitness level. The increased excitement surrounding the American elites, their goals and dreams, will be a gift to our participants and the Tampa Bay community.”
The top five American male and female finishers in the Publix Gasparilla Half Marathon will divvy up a sum of $30,000, with the winners taking home $8000 each. Not forgetting the event’s deep roots in the Tampa Bay community, Gasparilla’s “American Development and Local Prize Purse,” also features $10,000 for the best local runners in the Half Marathon, with the top finishers earning $2,000 each.
The American athletes who have committed, with career best times, are as follows:
MEN:
Shadrack Biwott, 61:40
Abdi Abdirahman, 60:29
Fernando Cabada, 62:00
Ryan Vail, 62:04
Tyler McCandless, 63:16
Carlos Trujillo, 63:19
Jeffrey Eggleston, 63:00
Patrick Rizzo, 64:20
Bobby Curtis, 61:52
WOMEN:
Jen Rhines, 71:14 P
Adriana Nelson, 69:59
Lindsey Scherf, 71:45
Mattie Suver, 71:56
Tera Moody, 72:30
Wendy Thomas, 72:29
Stephanie Pezzullo, 73:12
Caroline LeFrak, 74:23