9th Mega Marathon Manipur
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 28 2015 :
The 9th edition of Mega Marathon Manipur will be run on Sunday.
The event is being organised by United People's Front (UPF).
The marathon will be participating by more than two thousand runners, both from outside and inside Manipur.
The event will be flagged off from the Khuman Lampak Sports Complex by O Ibobi Sigh, Chief Minister at 7 in the morning informed a released by UPF.
According to the organisers, the route of the marathon remains the same as the previous years.
So, the runners will ran in an around the Imphal City and will culminate at Khuman Lampak Main Stadium.
The closing function to the mega event will be grace by Abdul Nasir, Agriculture and Fishiries Minister and BM Yaima Shah, President UPF among others.
The released also added chase numbers will be distributed at 7 am while shirts will be distributed at 5.30 in the morning and urged the athletes to be present at Khuman Lampak in time added the release.
In addition, UPF requested the sport loving citizenry of Imphal to support the event and encourage the runners when they ran through the Imphal City.
At the same time the released shared that necessary preparations for the successful conduct of the event had been completed and are in place.