Frenchman Abraham Kiprotich has won this year’s edition of the Lagos City Marathon 42km race.
The Ugandanborn athlete finished the race in a time of 2:15:04 and will walk away with the $50,000 prize money. Ilya Pam of Nigeria won the best time for indigenous Nigerians participating in the race with a time of 2hrs 27mins.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode speaking during the presentation of prizes pledged that the Lagos state government will invest in training Nigerian participants so that they will take over the competition from the East Africans who are perpetual winners.
Governor Ambode also said, “We’re at the Bronze level of marathons, but we want to get it to the Gold level, in the next two years.
