Adokiye Amiesiamaka Stadium, Port Harcourt

No fewer than 50 elite athletes who are part of the star-cast for this weekend’s Access Bank Lagos City Marathon will arrive in the country today.

According to the general manager for the marathon race, Yussuf Alli, most of the expected athletes will be coming from Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Bahrain, Cameroon and Rwanda.

Alli added that the incoming athletes will drive straight to the Expo Centre of the race at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos to collect their race bibs and numbers.

It was also gathered that the athletes will be received in the country by the chairman of Lagos State Sports Commission (LSSC) and head of the organising committee of the event, Deji Tinubu.

Alli added that, “we are expecting the bulk of our elite athletes on Thursday from their respective bases. They are all eager to be here for the Lagos City Marathon.”

Top on the list of those expected in Lagos today is Kenya’s Josphat Kifanni Too who has a personal best time of 2.08.23secs; Peter Kiplagat who won the 2015 Geneva Marathon is also expected from Kenya, as well as his compatriot and winner of the 2011 Warsaw Marathon Sammy Kibet.

Also expected from Ethiopia is winner of the Rome 2012 Marathon Abebe Negewo.

Also, as many as 150 Nigerian elites, mostly from Jos, will also be arriving in Lagos today, while 20,000 athletes are expected to feature in the marathon which is the first of its kind in over three decades in the country.

About N92m is on offer for marathoners who can run from Old Lagos (National Stadium Surulere) to New Lagos (Eko Atlantic City), which is about a distance of 42.195 kilometres.

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we are waiting for them!