Pamodzi Sports activities Advertising and marketing, organiser of the historic Okpekpe worldwide 10km Highway Race, has congratulated Nilayo Sports activities Administration, Entry Financial institution, and Lagos State Authorities on the profitable organisation of the tenth version of the Entry Financial institution Lagos Metropolis Marathon.
Zack Amodu, the Okpekpe worldwide 10km highway race Director, is thrilled organisers of the Lagos Marathon have been steadfast and centered on delivering an occasion that grew from bronze to a gold label race. “We at Okpekpe worldwide 10km race can solely be completely satisfied that organisers of Lagos Metropolis Marathon have been in a position to efficiently navigate the trail we cleared as the primary highway operating occasion in West Africa to have its race course measured by a World Athletics licensed course measurer.
“We’re additionally the primary to be formally recognised as a world-class occasion by World Athletics with the granting of a bronze label standing in 2015, eight years after the world governing physique began classifying highway races,” mentioned Amodu. Okpekpe race organisers celebrated 10 years of organising the label race in 2024, and Amodu careworn that he understands how organisers of the occasion in Lagos have to be feeling after delivering one other profitable race on Saturday. Amodu believes organisers of highway races in Nigeria have helped in laying a stable basis in Nigeria and wish the suitable authorities to take it a step additional.
“Distance operating in Nigeria is probably the most profitable among the many athletics disciplines, and the sooner authorities makes a deliberate try at rising it, the higher for the nation. If our athletes are educated and inspired to attain instances that may qualify them to run throughout the globe just like the east Africans are doing now, the influence it is going to have on assuaging poverty, present employment and contribute positively to our GDP might be large. “It is going to additionally arrest the detrimental tendencies of our youths who’re being utilized by the satan to perpetuate criminality,” added Amodu who’s thrilled as many as 20 highway races programs have measured and authorized by World Athletics licensed course measurers.