“Millennium Marathon Helped Me A Lot” - Milo Marathon Female Winner Sakat Lariba

Upper West Regional Millennium Marathon Winner Sakat Lariba who came first in the Accra Milo Marathon has confessed that participating in the international event really exposed her and she learnt many tricks before going in for the popular Milo Marathon.

“I have been in Accra for the past two weeks after competing in the Millennium Marathon and I have never missed my training schedule. I really trained hard and I can see the reward. I am really happy” she said after the event.

Lariba run the best and fastest time in 2015 Accra Milo Marathon to beat five-time winner Millicent Boadi, who finished second. Lariba will receive Ghc15,000 as her prize as Boadi goes home with GHc5,000.00. The third place winner receives

Ghc 3000.

Incidentally the experienced Millicent Boadi place second at the Millennium Marathon and went home with $ 3,500.

At the blast of the whistle it was a sea of over 4000 runners, but eventually Lariba emerged the leader and winner in the women’s division of the 2015 Accra Milo Marathon on Monday September 21, 2015.

This year’s Accra Milo Marathon was under the theme, “Every Champion Starts By Taking a First Step”. Voltic Mineral Water and Metz Insurance Company are co-sponsors for this year’s Accra Milo Marathon.

In the men’s category, Ghana Armed Forces’ Corporal Alhaji Kassim Mohammed defended the title he won two years ago witham improved time and went home with the ultimate prize of Ghc15,000 in the 42.2-kilometre mass race. The first runner-up Joseph Yandal of the Ghana Police Service grabbed GHc5,000.00 with the second runner-up Malick Yakubu receiving GHc3,000.00.

Most of the news makers in the Milo race were winners in the Regional Millennium Marathon, like Joseph Yandel and Elizabeth Bortso who were Regional Milennium Marathon Winners in Ho in the Volta Regio, but were second in the male and third in the female division respectively at the Milo event.

In the Under-15 category, a student of Breman Junior High School came first, having clocked 58 minutes and 29 seconds in the 15-kilometre race for juniors from the Azumah Nelson (Kaneshie) Sports Complex. Otoo took home GHc5,000.00 in cash.

Lafisatu Sumanu from Dwayaw Nkwanta was timed 17th, but she was to be the first female to complete the race and took home Ghc 5000 for her achievement.