Sri Lanka, Oct. 6 -- Two Kenyan athletes Elias Nyaga Muthoni and Caroline Cherono won men's and women's full marathon at the 19th LSR Colombo Marathon yesterday. The event was organised by Lanka Sportrizen after lapse of six years. Last time this event was held in 2018 and this time it was more successful with more than 1200 athletes from 135 countries taking part including 1011 atheletes from Sri Lanka.

Elias Muthoni finished the men's marathon in a time of 2 hours 25.35 seconds while Sri Lankan Kumar Shamuganeshwaran and Chanaka Rupasinghe were placed second and third. The men's full marathon competed fora distance covering 42.195km. The marathon started near the BMICH from Buddhaloka Mawatha proceeding via Wattala, Pamunugama, Thalahe...