Zepherinus “Knockay” Joseph valiantly defended his Title at the NemWil OECS Half Marathon held in St. Vincent & The Grenadines on Sunday, November 15, 2009. Out of a field of participants from St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana, Zepherinus breasted the tape at least one minute and eight seconds ahead of Victor Ledgers in second place.

The route proved very tough for the premiere long distance runner and eight times winner of this event, Pamenos Ballantyne of St. Vincent & The Grenadines, who could only muster a fourth place finish behind Curtis Cox of Trinidad & Tobago. So at the finish, it was Zepherinus, Victor, Curtis and Pamenos for the males.

For the females, it was first place honours for Shermin Lasaldo of Trinidad & Tobago who came in with a time of one hour thirty-nine minutes and eighteen seconds (1:39:18), followed by Lisa Daniel of St. Vincent & The Grenadines (1:43:27). The third place female was Kenisha Pascall of Grenada (1:50:39).

In the Male Veterans category, fifty year old Leonard Ballantyne came in first in a time of 1:47:05, followed by fifty-two year old Ernest King in a time of 2:04:40 and fifty-eight year old Raymond Bernard 2:35:41 in third place. There was only one Female Veteran in the person of forty-seven year old Venice Wattley of St. Kitts & Nevis, and she came in a time of 2:29:50.

The oldest finishing participant was fifty-eight year old Raymond Bernard of St. Vincent & The Grenadines.

The first 10 finishers were as follows: