The KREM New Year's Day Cycling Classic is a single day road cycling race held in Belize since 1991 on New Year's Day, January 1, and is thus the first race on Belize's cycling calendar. The race was restricted to elite and junior men until 2001, when females became eligible to ride. It is considered the second most prestigious race in Belize after the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic.
The usual route is over the Northern Highway from Corozal District (at first Corozal Town, now the Santa Elena northern border) to Belize City, finishing at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street, approximately two blocks from the home of the race's sponsor, Kremandala Ltd., located on Partridge Street.
Past winners
editYear | Winner (Male) | Winner (Female) |
2017 | Ron Vasquez | Alicia Thompson |
2016 | Joel Borland | Alicia Thompson |
2015 | Hector Hugo Rangel | Alicia Thompson |
2014 | Byron Pope | Shalini Zabaneh |
2013 | David Henderson, Jr. | Shalini Zabaneh |
2012 | Geovanni Choto | Kaya Cattouse |
2011 | Marco Salas Arias | Shalini Zabaneh |
2010 | Carlos Manuel Hernandez | Shalini Zabaneh |
2009 | Marlon Castillo | Lori Harkey |
2008 | Moe Herman Camacho | Shalini Zabaneh |
2007 | Shane Vasquez | Gina Lovell |
2006 | Scottie Weiss | Alicia Thompson |
2005 | Michael Lewis | Marinette Flowers |
2004 | Marlon Castillo | Fiona Humes Gonzalez |
2003 | Douglas Lamb | Fiona Humes Gonzalez |
2002 | Barney Brown | Ann Marie Bennett |
2001 | Miguel Perez Laparra | Karen Rosito |
2000 | Ariel Rosado | |
1999 | Ernest Meighan | |
1998 | Francisco Flores | |
1997 | Ian Smith | |
1996 | Nigel Matus | |
1995 | Fred Usher | |
1994 | Douglas Lamb | |
1993 | Derrick Mahler | |
1992 | Francisco Flores | |
1991 | Michael Lewis |