The General Manager of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon and former international, Yussuf Ali has said over 5,000 runners have collected kits to participate in the 2019 edition of the event which holds on February 2.
According to the organisers, this figure is well above the initial projection of 150,000 runners at the start of the 10km and full marathon on February 2.
The collection of kits at the Teslim Balogun stadium Surulere collection centre and the Tafawa Balewa Square centre started on Wednesday, January 7 and would end on January 28, 2019.
Alli said “Our target of 150,000 is achievable going by the number of entries we have received so far. Though the collection of physical forms have since closed, interested runners can still apply on or before Friday, January 18, 2019’’.
Alli advised runners living in Ajah, Lekki, Epe, Victoria Island, Ikoyi and other locations in Epe, Ibeju-Lekki and Eti-Osa not to bother coming to the Teslim Balogun but to make use of the collection centre in Lagos Island.
The former athlete also said the 2019 race will be bigger and better. “We have made provision for the expected figure of participants. I am assuring every 10km race runner that finished under two hours will get a medal, ditto the 42km runners that finished under the cut off time of seven hours”.
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