Goa Khabar:<\/strong> Clinton Tavares of Ribandar and Hansine Benoit of Porvorim won the men\u2019s and women\u2019s half marathons at the 12th<\/sup> Rotary Rain Run marathon event held at the Atal stadium, Bambolim on Sunday. While Clinton clocked an impressive 1:38:24 hours for the 21km race, Hansine clocked 1:53:19 hrs for the same distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the 10km race, Dr Blanche Themudo of Colva ( 52:01 mins) and Uttam Jelugadekar ( 35:36 mins) of Old Goa won the women\u2019s and men\u2019s races respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interesting coincidence, a mother-daughter combination from Jalandhar, Punjab won podium positions in the 21km half marathon races in their respective age groups. While the daughter Avneet Virk, came second in the women\u2019s half marathon race with a timing of 2:10:51 hrs, her mother Harpreet Virk came third in the women\u2019s 45-59 age group race with a timing of 2:32:35 hrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An elated Clinton, the men\u2019s half marathon winner said, \u201cThis is a challenging course with many ups and downs. I had to dig deep to find that mental strength to push through.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n While Hansine, the women\u2019s half marathon winner said, \u201cIt feels incredibly rewarding to win this race, especially after all the hard work and training that went into this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uttam Jelugadekar, the 10km men\u2019s winner was very happy to have won his race on Kargil Vijay Diwas today. He said, \u201cI dedicate my victory to the brave soldiers of the Indian Army whose courage and sacrifice inspire us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n KEY RESULTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10km women\u2019s winners:<\/strong> 1) Dr Blanche Themudo, Colva ( 52:01 mins), 2) Line Shetty, Panaji, ( 55:41) 3) Stephany D\u2019souza, Aldona ( 1:03:17 hrs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10km men\u2019s winners:<\/strong> 1) Uttam Jelugadekar, Old Goa ( 35:36 mins) 2) Hari Velip, Dharbandora ( 36:56 mins) 3) K Shafi, Anantapur ( Andhra Pradesh), ( 41:46 mins)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21km women\u2019s winners<\/strong> 1) Hansine Benoit, Porvorim, ( 1:53: 19 hrs) 2) Avneet Virk, Jalandhar, Punjab ( 2:10:51 hrs) 3) Yohanna D\u2019souza, Panaji ( 2:17:22 hrs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21km men\u2019s winners<\/strong> 1) Clinton Tavares, Ribandar ( 1:38:24 hrs) 2) Alpha Madhu, Porvorim ( 1:45:59) 3) Mayur Kherdikar, Panaji ( 1:50:01)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kindly check the captioned photos of the 4 winners, a RACE-START photo and ONE drone video clip that has been attached<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr Blanche Themudo and Uttam Jelugadekar win the 10km races. Goa Khabar: Clinton Tavares of Ribandar and Hansine Benoit of Porvorim won the men\u2019s and women\u2019s half marathons at the 12th Rotary Rain Run marathon event held at the Atal stadium, Bambolim on Sunday. While Clinton clocked an impressive 1:38:24 hours for the 21km race, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":114238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794,38],"class_list":["post-114237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured","tag-goa"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114243,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114237\/revisions\/114243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/26.07.26.jpg\")
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