Dar to honour Nyerere in style

By
Local and foreign athletes compete during a past Dar Rotary Marathon. Over 1000 runners from five countries are expected to battle it out for top honours in this year’s event set for Tuesday. PHOTO | FILE 
Elite athletes from five countries are expected to compete in this year’s Dar Rotary Marathon set for Tuesday.

The race to be held on Nyerere Day will feature over 1000 runners from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi and hosts Tanzania, according to the event’s organizing committee chairman, Vikash Shah. “We are very happy that a number of top athletes have confirmed their participation in this year’s Dar Rotary Marathon,” said Shah.
He named the two-time Sydney City2Surf champion Dickson Marwa and Fabian Joseph as among local marathoners expected to battle  it out for top honours during the anxiously awaited event.
Rwanda will field three runners in the race, including Eric Sebahire and Felicien Muhitira, who won a bronze medal in the recent East Africa Military Games Cross-Country in Zanzibar. The event’s organisers will pay for air tickets and accommodation for foreign athletes and have set aside hefty awards for winners, including a Sh3m cash prize for winners in each category.
Some Sh2m will go to the runner-ups in the men and women’s category while the third-placed will get Sh1m. The race will start and finish at the Green area in Oysterbay in the city and it will take a route to Toure Drive, Chole, Haile Selassie and Ali Hassan Mwinyi roads, according to the organisers. To ensure more runners compete in the race and spice-up the event, two new routes – a 5km family fun walk and a 21.1km cycling race -- have been added.  The theme of this year’s event is “Empowering Future Leaders through education.”
The funds to be raised will go towards the second phase of the refurbishment of the Sh400m state-of- the-art Entrepreneurship and Resource Centre at the University of Dar es Salaam. Shah said the money is meant to provide a setup of another 85-seater thin-client computer network with all software.
“We expect to raise Sh600m during the race,” he said. The race has been sponsored by a number of firms, including Bank M, SBC Tanzania and Rotary friends.

SOURCE: The Citizen
Gidabuday Sports Tourism Foundation is a Non Profit Organization based in Arusha. It's main purpose is to promote, sensitize and enforce education through sports, as well as to search and develop new talents for sports from young people from marginalized communities all over the country.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular

GIDABUDAY KUHAMASISHA UJENZI WA KIJIJI CHA MICHEZO TANZANIA LENYE JINA YA MWANARIADHA MKONGWE BW.JOHN STEPHEN AKHWARI

By
Image
Kutoka kushoto ni Rogath John Stephen ,mwanariadha wa kimataifa na mtoto wa mwanariadha maarufu duniani Bw. John Stephen Akhwari ,Phaustin Baha Sulle mshindi wa medali ya fedha katika nusu marathon na Mwanaharakati wa michezo Tanzania Bw. Wilhelm Gidabuday.   ........................................ By Adam Ihucha and Gadiel Urio -Arusha.   Tanzania is set to have a national sports training Village, thanks to an initiative by one of its renowned athletic. The sports academy will be named after the John Stephen Akhwari’, the probably forgotten first Tanzanian athletic to participate in 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico. The World renowned athletic, Wilhelm Gidabuday, who happened to be a Tanzanian is behind the proposed Tsh 1 billion athletic training village, the first of its kind in the country. Mr Gidabuday, and a gifted Arusha based journalist and blogger, Gadiel Urio are currently working extra time to prepare nearly 700km marathon relay in a bid to r
Read more

Rio Olympics: Brazil win men's volleyball gold, GB's Joyce takes boxing silver – as it happened

By
Image
Just look at his face: Bruno Mossa de Rezende (left) after Brazil claimed gold in the men’s volleyball final. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Brazil did not win a lot of medals; but Brazil hosted the first ever Summer Olympic Games in South America, western countries criticized all efforts put up by South American supper power but they did not bother listening instead they did all they could and today they finished strong. Thanks Rio, thanks Brazil. We hope that some day African Continent will rewrite history to host the first ever Summer Olympic Games. www.gidabuday.blogsports.com wishes all Olympic travelers a safe flight out bounding to their home countries. See you in Tokyo Olympics 2020, god bless Olympics Games. By Wilhelm Francis Gidabuday @gidabudays       
Read more

Olympics 2016: Usain Bolt completes sprint double, Jade Jones retains taekwondo title

By
Image
Bolt's 19.78 seconds is his slowest winning time in an Olympic 200m final Usain Bolt completed a Rio 2016 sprint double by winning the 200m as Jade Jones took Great Britain's gold-medal tally to 22 with taekwondo success. Bolt's eighth Olympic title came in a time of 19.78 seconds, and the Ja maican has one final chance to win gold in Friday's 4x100m relay final. Jones, meanwhile, beat Eva Calvo Gomez to win taekwondo's -57kg division. With three days remaining, Britain are just nine medals short of the  record  65 they secured in London four years ago. They got off to a great start on day 13 as Alistair Brownlee and brother Jonny won gold and silver respectively in the triathlon, and Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark triumphed in the sailing. Elsewhere, Liam Heath and Jon Schofield  won silver  in the men's 200m kayak double, and Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge  took bronze  in badminton's men's doubles. Nicola Adams  reached the women
Read more

Rio Olympics: Swimmer Lochte apologises for 'robbery' saga

By
Image
Ryan Lochte's claims prompted a spoof poster to be displayed at the athletics stadium US swimmer Ryan Lochte has apologised for his behaviour in Rio and "for not being more careful and candid". The gold medallist had claimed that he and a group of fellow US swimmers had been robbed at a petrol station. But CCTV footage contradicted that story, showing the men had vandalised the petrol station after partying. Mr Lochte  tweeted : "I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that I am sorry." He said he had waited to issue the statement until it was clear that his teammates would be returning to the US. Rio's Mayor, Eduardo Paes, accepted the Americans' apologies: "I confess that my only emotion towards them is pity and contempt," he said. "It's a shame that they're such weak characters, that they have such personality flaws and it's up to the American Olympic Committee to sort it o
Read more