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Plateau's Issah Wins Mtn's Enugu Marathon.

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Byline: Duro Ikhazuagbe

Fwatfhak Issah of Plateau State who only heard of the zonal marathon race hours to the event yesterday won the Enugu zone of the MTN sponsored International Half Marathon to qualify for the main event coming up in Lagos in November.

According to the winner, "I heard of the race only on Friday morning. So I had to organise and came with an all-night bus trip to Enugu." He won the race with a time of 1:13:52 followed by Mathew Okoro of Enugu State with 1:14:08 and the third entrant is Mitu Diyak, also of Plateau State with 1:14:25 secs.

The sponsors, MTN Nigeria has already stated that the top 10 qualifiers from the zones would be sponsored for the Lagos meet, in which eight males and two females got their qualification ticket.

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