Abraham Kiprotich, a Ugandan-born French long-distance runner has won the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon 2018 arriving at the finishing line with a record time of 2hrs 8mins. Kiprotich will take home the $50,000 prize money, joining Abraham Kipton who won the race in 2017 in the record book of winners of Access Bank Lagos City Marathon. Herpha Guta of Ethiopia also won the women’s edition of the race finishing in 2hrs 38mins.
Participants braved the rain that started at about 5 a.m to come out in their thousands to run in the race which started at the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos.
Kenyans seems to have dominated the past two editions of the Lagos City marathon with Abraham Kipton winning the inaugural edition and also the second edition where he went home with 50,000 dollars.
Nigerian marathon athlete, Ilya Pam grabbed the bragging rights as the first Nigerian runner to cross the finish line in 2 hrs 27 mins.
The Lagos city marathon is the second best marathon race in Africa just behind Cape Town marathon race.
The Lagos City Marathon kicked off with the first edition in 2016 in collaboration with the Access Bank.
The race is a 42.1km race that sees athletes from different parts of the world converging in Lagos to run through different streets of Lagos from Teslim Balogun Stadium.
In 2016, the race was won by Kenyan athlete, Abraham Kiptum in 2 hours, 16mins, 21secs. He also won the prize of $50,000.
In 2017, Abraham Kiptum again nabbed the winning prize of $50,000 by finishing the race in 2hrs,15mins 23secs.
In 2018, Ugandan-born French long-distance athlete, Abraham Kiprotich, won the race finishing in 2hrs, 15mins and 04secs.
