Kenyan Bernard Sang gained the 2024 Entry Financial institution Lagos Metropolis Marathon on Saturday with a time of two:16:49.
Sang led compatriot Silas Cheprot with a time of two:16:54; and Godffrey Birger, with a time of two:17:43; who took second and third place respectively.
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) studies that it was one more all-Kenyan affair within the males's class of the race the place they completed first, second and third respectively.
Among the many ladies, Chala Kebene from Ethiopia got here first with a time of two:41:01.
Kenya's Ruth Aga returned with a time of two:41:41 to take second, and Ethiopia's Sharon Cherop was third in a time of two:42:00.
Kenyan Bernard Sang, who completed third on the 2023 Lagos Metropolis Marathon (eighth version), improved his timing to mud off 3,000 different runners to win the 2024 race.
Sang mentioned he needed to work more durable to win the race after training for six months.
“I practiced exhausting to win this race as a result of I needed to be quicker, though I couldn't enhance my private greatest as a result of Lagos is hotter,” he mentioned.
Sang additionally got here first on the forty second Istanbul Marathon, the world's solely intercontinental working race, in 2 hours, 11 minutes and 49 seconds – lower than 5 minutes into the race in Lagos.
Sang, who additionally gained the highest prize of $50,000, expressed his want to take part within the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris.
The second and third males's winners additionally took dwelling $40,000 and $30,000 respectively.
NAN studies that the 42km race, which began at 6am on the Nationwide Stadium in Surulere, ended on the Eko Atlantic Metropolis in Victoria Island.
The Gold Label Marathon, an annual occasion lately upgraded by the World Athletics, goals to be the very best marathon in Africa that may improve to platinum earlier than its tenth anniversary.
