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Some senior high school athletes expected to grace the event<\/strong><\/p>\n Over 50 Senior High Schools (SHS) from the Greater Accra Region are expected to participate in the first-ever Accra Inter-City Marathon, fixed for Saturday, July 30, 2022.<\/p>\n This follows a successful discussion between the Ghana Education Service (GES) and Medivents Consult \u2013 organisers of the event, for the involvement of the schools in the much-anticipated race.<\/p>\n Following the discussions, the GES would use the competition as qualifiers for the selection of athletes for this year\u2019s Inter-Regional Schools and Colleges Sports Festival.<\/p>\n Michael Ntow Ayeh, National Physical Education (PE) Coordinator of GES, said his outfit and the organisers have concluded discussions on the participation of the students in the 21-kilometer race.<\/p>\n He said the students would be drawn from all the SHS\u2019s in the Greater Region, and was convinced that they would put up an impressive performance to make the region proud.,<\/p>\n He commended the organisers of the event for the initiative, adding that his outfit would make the best use of the opportunity.<\/p>\n Henri Senyo Penni, General Manager of Medivents Consult, said they were happy with the decision of the GES to be part of the event.<\/p>\n According to Penni, the involvement of the GES in the event would help his outfit achieve their target of staging one of the biggest marathons in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cOur aim is to have massive participation, with people from all walks of life participating, therefore we are excited to have the GES on board,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n The Accra Inter-City Marathon, also known as the \u201cHomowo Marathon\u201d, is part of the activities endorsed by the Ga Traditional Council (GTC) for the celebration of the 2022 Homowo Festival.<\/p>\n The 21-kilometer race would commence at Papaye, Spintex Road and end at Mantse Agbona, James Town amidst fanfare.<\/p>\n Over 1,000 athletes are expected to participate in the race, which is the first of its kind in the country.<\/p>\n Some senior high school athletes expected to grace the event<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Some senior high school athletes expected to grace the event Over 50 Senior High Schools (SHS) from the Greater Accra Region are expected to participate in the first-ever Accra Inter-City Marathon, fixed for Saturday, July 30, 2022. This follows a successful discussion between the Ghana Education Service (GES) and Medivents Consult \u2013 organisers of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2158,18781,1703,1997,89,618],"class_list":["post-1133033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-high","tag-intercity","tag-marathon","tag-schools","tag-senior","tag-set"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}