{"id":429885,"date":"2011-05-25T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/25\/kenya-busia-half-marathon-attract-neighbouring-uganda\/"},"modified":"2011-05-25T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T00:00:16","slug":"kenya-busia-half-marathon-attract-neighbouring-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/25\/kenya-busia-half-marathon-attract-neighbouring-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Busia Half Marathon Attract Neighbouring Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"18.7567264574\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Reuben Olita<\/p>\n<p>24 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>BUSIA first ever half marathon race on June 12 has attracted international runners from neighbouring Uganda. Athletics Kenya (AK) western branch chairman, Henry Alukhaba said the 21km event will feature both men and women with the winner in each category taking home Sh100,000. Alukhaba said there will also be 10km race for locals and winners in the men and women&#8217;s events will receive Sh40,000. He said Coca Cola are the main sponsors with Kenya Commercial Bank,<\/p>\n<p>Khetia Super Market, CDF Amagoro Constituency, Mareba Chemist Nambale and Border Palace Hotel Busia as co-sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Alukhaba said the deadline for registration will be on June 6 and participants in half marathon will part with Sh500 and Sh300 for the 10km runners. He said athletes can register at Khetia supermarket in Busia, KCB Busia, Mareba Chemist Nambale or district youth offices in Busia County.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105250010.html\" title=\"Kenya: Busia Half Marathon Attract Neighbouring Uganda\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Busia Half Marathon Attract Neighbouring Uganda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Reuben Olita 24 May 2011 BUSIA first ever half marathon race on June 12 has attracted international runners from neighbouring Uganda. Athletics Kenya (AK) western branch chairman, Henry Alukhaba said the 21km event will feature both men and women with the winner in each category taking home Sh100,000. Alukhaba said there will also be 10km race for locals and winners in the men and women&#8217;s events will receive Sh40,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-429885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Busia Half Marathon Attract Neighbouring Uganda - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/25\/kenya-busia-half-marathon-attract-neighbouring-uganda\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Busia Half Marathon Attract Neighbouring Uganda - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Reuben Olita 24 May 2011 BUSIA first ever half marathon race on June 12 has attracted international runners from neighbouring Uganda. 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