Stephen Allen and Gayle Lindsay are this year’s Butterfield and Vallis 5K road race champions.

For Allen, it was a fifth title in the event which he first won in 2010, while Lindsay chalked up her maiden victory.

In the women’s race, one of the event’s most storied champions, Jennifer Alen, collapsed a quarter of a mile from the finish line.

The defending champion and four-times winner had a comfortable lead when she collapsed on Serpentine Road. She was given assistance from spectators before being taken to hospital by ambulance.

In the men’s race there was close competition between Allen and Tim Price during in the early stages.

“He was running by my side,” said Allen.

“I put in some surges on North Shore, but he kept coming back. It was at Admiralty Park that I got a few metres on him.”

Once he opened up a gap, Allen maintained the pace, aware that Price is a formidable competitor at all distances, including the marathon.

“I knew he had the strength to come back, so I just kept pushing.”

Overall winner Allen, 36, was pleased with his time of 17min 04sec.

Runner-up Price, 26, was still feeling tired from the previous week’s exertions in the Bermuda Triangle Challenge, where he finished second.

Yesterday, he crossed the line in 17:33. He said: “I was getting closer to Stephen on the uphills, but he got away.”

Another runner had been in second position during the race, but pulled out at two miles, according to Price.

Third man was Jamie Fraser, who won the masters division in 18:18.

During the first half of the race women’s winner Lindsay, 28, ran in close company with Alen and Deon Breary.

“I was trying to keep on Jennifer’s shoulder. I wanted to see how far I could stay with her,” said Lindsay.

At the midpoint of the race, Alen started to move away from her. Lindsay said: “I got to Admiralty Park and started to feel the pain. In the last kilometre I was struggling.”

She had lost sight of Alen until she rounded a corner near the finish and saw the women’s race leader at the kerbside being attended to by spectators.

“I hope she is all right,” Lindsay said.

Second woman, and first in the masters division, was Deon Breary in 19:57, followed by Catherine Mello in 20:38.

Winner of the men’s senior masters division was Geoff Blee, in 20:06, while Claire De Ste Croix was the women’s champion in 24:55.

In the over-60 division, the winners were Jonathan Caswell in 20:54, and Debbie Butterfield in 26:05.

The adult’s 5K competitive walk was won by Bermuda’s former international runner Mike Watson in 27:15, followed by Howard Williams in 33:27, and first woman Emma Atherton in 33:28.

Third man, and fourth overall, was Joseph Matthew in 34:46, while Annette Eve was second woman in 37:12, followed by Sheena Young in 37:29.

The event also included races for primary, middle and senior schools.

The 5K race for senior school runners, run in conjunction with the adults’ race, was won by Johndell Cumberbatch in 18:07, followed by Izaih Tucker in 18:11, and Matthew Oliveira in 18:22. Among the girls, Ashley Irby was first in 20:20, with Lynsey Palmer second in 20:26, and Jessie Marshall third in 21:45.

The middle school race, over 2.7K, was won by Sancho Smith in 10:22, followed by Tommy Marshall in 10:29 and Jake Brislane in 10:50. Fastest girl was Jessica Bruton in 11:32, followed by Myeisha Sharrieff in 11:46 and Jade Johnson in 12:18.

The primary school race, also over 2.7K, was won by Paris-Mitchell Robinson in 11:31, with Bakari Furbert second in 11:37, and Maximillian Reid third in 11:41.