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Ugandan Kiprotich, Ethiopian Guta wins Access Bank Lagos Marathon 2018
By Esther Egbe
Stephen Kiprotich, a Ugandan born long distance runner has won the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon 2018 arriving at the finishing line with a record time of 2hrs 8mins National Daily monitored.
Kiprotich will take home the $50,000 prize money, joining Abhraham 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 2 hrs 38 mins.
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 seem 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.
The Lagos City Marathon is the second best marathon race in Africa, just behind Cape Town marathon race National Daily learnt.
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