Numbers at the ninth MTN Kampala marathon continued to rise before the dead line this Friday at the Lugogo indoor stadium.
According to reports from the MTN Area, the number had shot up to 13.200 athletes with the organisers expecting the number to reach 20,000 before Thursday.
Twenty two elite Kenyan athletes have enter the 42 kilometer race
and will battle alongside their biggest nemesis’s Ethiopia who have six athletes up for the 16 million for the men’s race while Uganda will put up a formiable challenge with Moses Kibet,Joseph Nsubuga,Simon Ayieko,Benjamin Kiplagat, but Ugandan elite athletes will have to spread over and battle for honours in the main marathon, the half marathon and 21 kilometer race and the 10 kilometer race.
This year the organisers Uganda Athletics Federation has opted to give elite athletes an appearance fee to spice up the event.