{"id":251714,"date":"2025-02-27T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=251714"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:38:13","slug":"3rd-edition-of-the-ecowas-abuja-internationa-marathon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/3rd-edition-of-the-ecowas-abuja-internationa-marathon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Edition of the ECOWAS Abuja Internationa Marathon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ECOWAS Youth and Sports Development Centre (EYSDC) is pleased to announce the\u00a0<strong>Third Edition of the ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon<\/strong>, scheduled to take place on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, 1st March 2025<\/strong>, in Abuja, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s marathon is a special event, as it forms part of the activities to commemorate the\u00a0<strong>50th Anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)<\/strong>. The competition will feature two categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>21km Semi-Marathon<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>5km Fun Run<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prizes will be awarded to the top five male and female runners in the 5km race, while all other participants will receive medals and certificates of participation.<\/p>\n<p>The event is open to athletes from all ECOWAS Member States as well as participants from outside the ECOWAS region.\u00a0<strong>Registration is free and open to citizens of\u00a0 all Member States !<\/strong>\u00a0To register, visit the official marathon website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowasabujamarathon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ecowasabujamarathon.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ECOWAS Youth and Sports Development Centre (EYSDC) is pleased to announce the\u00a0Third Edition of the &hellip; <a title=\"3rd Edition of the ECOWAS Abuja Internationa Marathon 2025\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/3rd-edition-of-the-ecowas-abuja-internationa-marathon-2025\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3rd Edition of the ECOWAS Abuja Internationa Marathon 2025<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251716,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251714\/revisions\/251716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}