Months of exercising and the hard work he put in for the 2018 Nairobi Standard Chartered marathon 42 kilometres race has finally paid off.
The happily energized Elisha Kiprop has finally won the highly anticipated 42 km race in 2 hours and 17 minutes.
The winner for the 42Km Men race is Elisha Kiprop. He won the race in 2 hours and 17 minutes. Congratulations Kiprop. #StanchartMarathon pic.twitter.com/ZdmQ3TvDcF
— Embakasi Finest . (@mwanetuz) October 28, 2018
42kms winner Elisha Kiprop #StanChartMarathon pic.twitter.com/ZLD1yeEwuN
— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) October 28, 2018
Elisha will be getting away with a powerful ride from Kibo motorcycles.
This comes after Kibo Africa, a motorcycles company that manufactures kibo k150 motorbikes in Kenya promised to give away a k150 bike to the winner of the race.
Months of exercising and the hard work he put in for the #StanChartMarathon 42 km race has finally paid off. Congratulations Elisha Kiprop for the good run. pic.twitter.com/GrzrVwfQHc
— Standard Chartered (@StanChartKE) October 28, 2018
Kibo Africa is a Brand involved with the production of the K150 motorcycles in Kenya.
The 21km race was won by Mathew kimutai kiprotich cherono .
Kiprotich won the Mens 21 kms race in 1:04:57 as Valerie Aiyabei took the win in the Women 21kms.
Nairobi Marathon is an annual road running competition over the marathon distance held in every month of October in Nairobi. The Marathon was first held in 2003.
As time went by, the competition expanded and now includes a half marathon race along with the main race.
It was part of “The Greatest Race on Earth”, fully sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank. The other three legs of this four-marathon race were the Hong Kong Marathon, the Mumbai Marathon and the Singapore Marathon.
The winners of the Marathon share a whopping Prize of 8,000,000 KES.
Since the launch of the Seeing is Believing initiative in 2003, the Bank has raised more than Sh250 million. Among the programmes funded so far include screening of 6.2 million people, 170,000 surgical interventions, training of over 2000 health workers and upgrading of more than 10 health facilities around the country.