49 Bellaire runners complete Chevron Houston Marathon

Forty-nine Bellaire athletes completed the Chevron Houston Marathon on Sunday, Jan. 13 in Houston.

The runners from Bellaire and their finishing times were Andres Ferro, 2:57:17; Mario Macia, 3:29:39; Evan Long-Quian, 3:29:40; Gigi White, 3:31:15; Raina Newsome, 3:32:10; Kenneth Stein, 3:34:06; Howard Bookstaff, 3:33:35; Freddy Ferro, 3:35:32; William Henderson, 3:36:48; Arnold Colunga, 3:41:44; Kent Heck, 3:40:43; Kazuhiro Oka, 3:46:00; Herrick Sovany, 3:53:07; Greg McLauchlin, 3:52:31; Peter Nguyen, 3:55:21; James Harrison, 3:52:39; Don Goodell, 3:58:30; Khuong Tran, 4:00:13; Constantin Nicolae, 3:58:22; Rusty Rubenstein, 4:10:00; Tracy McLauchlin, 4:13:27; Mark Hochglaube, 4:21:02; Chung Lee, 4:21:32; Jamie Beckwith, 4:17:26; Jonathan Saikin, 4:13:04; Christene Pham, 4:17:05; Shannon Tanner, 4:22:21; Charles Hallenberger, 4:16:36; Vicente Valero, 4:28:21; Jose Endara, 4:35:05; Roberta Konicki, 4:36:03; Allison Dehart, 4:32:07; Ki Shin, 4:29:38; Erin Johnson, 4:41:03; Erik Konicki, 4:50:44; Monica Bowes, 4:40:44; Jeff Schneider, 4:47:55; Philip Cohen, 4:47:10; Kevin Spinnato, 4:50:50; Craig Domeracki, 5:00:07; Christopher Telschow, 4:57:56; Raghu Vikram, 4:59:41; Aaron Fink, 5:15:30; Peggy Faulk, 5:14:18; Howard Stone, 5:20:39; Elise Newman, 5:31:54; Ting-Ling Sha, 5:35:39; Scott Reed, 5:39:25; and Eugene Frogozo, 5:35:39.

Race organizers said 6,676 runners finished the 26.2-mile race, which began at Minute Maid Park and ended at George R. Brown Convention Center.

Bazu Worku, of Ethiopia, was the men's overall winner with a finishing time of 2:10:17, while Merima Mohammed, also of Ethiopia, was the winner in the women's category with a time of 2:23:37.