Nigeria’s most successful marathon, road race, long and middle distance athletics club, High Altitude Athletics Club, has registered 75 runners for the first time. Abuja International Marathon.
According to the owner of the Jos-based club, Steve Nuhu, they are ready to attack the April 29 race with some of the best runners in the country.
Nigeria’s most successful distance coach, Nuhu told journalists in Jos at the weekend that out of the 75 runners, 30 of them are elite male and female runners, who have dominated the Nigerian running circuit in the past decade and have also excelled abroad .
Some of the elite male runners registered for the Abuja International Marathon are Emmanuel Gyang Gwom, Adamu Shehu Mu’azu, Gyang Boyi Nyango, Tokbe Christopher Gwet, Okot Friday, Stephen Joshua Dalyop, Stephen Peter Mahan, Friday Yohanna, Joseph Kumbam and Solomon Dauda. . .
The elite women according to Nuhu are Deborah Pam Badung, Elizabeth Nuhu Power, Blessing Shambor Solomon, Charity Agofure, Hudung Gyang Stephen, Rosemary Danlami, Dinatu Yohanna, Monica Ezekiel Mandun, Juliana Usman and Faustina Oguh.
Nuhu thanked Unicentral Resources Generation Limited, the licensee of the Abuja International Marathon, for bringing a proper international marathon to the North.
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“I hope our Governor from the North will be in Abuja on April 29 and watch the race and see what we have been talking about for years. We have what it takes to compete with the best in the world, but our main problem is lack of support from the government and the corporate world.
“We have been talking about the same thing. All parents want their children in school today, so the only way to develop our children is to make sports part of the school curriculum. Let all children run from the age of five or six years with early teenage talent will be discovered and then we will have a center of excellence in each senatorial zone where the discovered talent will be given elite training at a very young age. .
“But our leaders don’t listen. With the support they want, we have what it takes to rule the world”.
Nuhu announced that the High Altitude Athletics Club’s target is to win the Nigerian prize at the Abuja International Marathon and also have many runners finish in the top ten in the international category.
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