The Wellington runner beat 49 others at Kettle Park to finish first overall in the open 5km race, finishing with a time of 16min 32sec.
Hill City-University’s Thomas White (17min 12sec) was a close second, with Leith’s Grayson Westgate (17min 26sec) in third.
Caversham’s Becky de la Harpe was the first woman home, with her time of 19min 49sec.
Zara Geddes (Hill City-University) blitzed the 3.75km, with her overall winning time of 14min 23sec.
Josh Siloy (Taieri) came second in 14min 45sec and Timothy Dawbin (Hill City-University) finished third, with his time of 16min 29sec.
Eva McLean (Hill City-University) was the first woman, with 11 min 25sec.
Luie Broom (Hill City-University) won the primary-aged 1.25km race, finishing in 5min 29sec.
Fellow club runner Santiago Fernandez Perez (Hill City University) finished second in 5min 40sec and Perry Saker (Caversham) placed third in 5min 46sec.
Penelope Hodgson (Hill City-University) was the first female, in 5min 59sec.
Alex Brown (Caversham) won the 3.75km walk in 19min 7sec.
The race is named after Sir James Barnes, a two-term member of Parliament for St Kilda and Dunedin mayor from 1968 to 1977.
Barnes, who won the New Zealand senior men’s cross-country title in 1932 and the men’s mile in 1933, did not think there were enough races during the cross-country season and donated the cup for the race in the early 1950s.
