The Season One of Tanfoam Marathon in Arusha dishes out 30 million/- in cash prizes for all top ten winners
The Maiden Tanfoam Marathon racing out on the first day of December promises to dish out 30 million/- in cash prizes for the winners, making more than 30 participants smile all the way towards Christmas.
Arusha City will on the first day of December 2024, conduct the maiden Tanfoam Marathon, which according to the organizers, will be dishing out the biggest cash prizes for the winners to ever been recorded in any racing event in the region.
The marathon organizers will award a total of 30 Million/- in cash prizes to all the 30 winners, both women and men, competing in the three racing categories, including the 21 Kilometers main event, the 10 Kilometers race as well as the 5 Kilometers fun run.
The chairperson of the race organizing committee, Glorious Temu, said they were well prepared to make the first season for the Tanfoam Marathon racing series a success.
They are working with the Red Cross team and ambulance support to ensure health support for the participants as well as the local police for added security.
“We expect to have at least 1500 participants for the race which gets flagged off at the Sheikh Amri Abeid Stadium on Sunday, the first day of December 2024 and also finishes at the same venue.
The race is organized by the Tanfoam Sports Promoters and supported by Arusha’s leading foam mattress maker.
As it happens, the two first runners to finish the main 21 Kilometers race in both men and women categories stand to pocket 5 million/- each.
This means, for the first winners in the main event alone a total of 10 million/- will be issued, in addition to other prizes such as foam mattresses.
The second winners for men and women will each pocket 2 million/-.
Those who finish in the third positions will each get one million/- and from there all the top ten runners are to pocket 550,000/-; 450,000/-; 350,000/-; 300,000/-; 200,000/-; 100,000/- and 50,000/- each from the two categories.
The top winners in the 10 Kilometers race stand to earn 1 million/- in cash, each, while the first runners-up are to get 500,000/- each. While the remaining top ten winners all stand to be rewarded with money.
For the Five Kilometers race, the top winners get to pocket 500,000/- each for both men and women, while the first two runners up get 300,000/- each and likewise all the top ten finishers will be pocketing cash prizes as well.
Tanfoam Marathon 2024 is supported by Tanfoam Limited as the main sponsor, the CRDB Bank, Tigo, Sterling Surfactants, G1 Security and Dew Drop waters.