The first Federal Bank Kochi Marathon, the town’s first 42.195km run with prize cash, shall be held on May 1.
Apart from the primary occasion, there shall be a half marathon, a 10-km occasion, and a 3km inexperienced run which hopes to draw faculties, housing societies, establishments, and girls’s teams in huge numbers.
The marathons held earlier within the metropolis didn’t have any prize cash however the Kochi Marathon, which has Federal Bank as its title sponsor and which shall be organised by CleoSportz, will carry a complete prize fund of Rs 10 lakh. The organisers hope to rope in among the nationwide stars for the occasion.
Kerala High Court Judge Devan Ramachandran launched the marathon’s emblem and Kochi Metro Rail Limited’s MD Loknath Behera was offered the primary bib of the occasion by Kochi City Police Commissioner Okay. Sethuraman.
Olympians Gopi Thonakal and O.P. Jaisha, additionally the nationwide file holder within the ladies’s marathon, Federal Bank Group President and CFO Venkatraman Venkateswaran and Coast Guard DIG N. Ravi had been amongst those that spoke.
Organised in affiliation with Kerala Police, the marathon shall be flagged off from the Maharaja’s Stadium and can run by a phenomenal course.
The on-line registration for the occasion is now open at www.kochimarathon.in.
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