Lakson Investments 2nd SOP Unified Marathon 2017
Marathon will be hold on Feb 5 in Karachi
Special Olympics Pakistan is dedicated to transforming a lives of children and adults with egghead disabilities by a energy of sports.
SOP provides year-round training in some-more than 10 Olympics-type sports to commission and capacitate children and adults with egghead disabilities to knowledge a fun and advantages of an thorough life.
“We prognosticate a universe that is thorough for people with disabilities. To prominence a means and applaud Kashmir Day in a demeanour unchanging to a vision, we are collaborating with Defense Housing Authority along with Lakson Investments to organize a 2nd Unified Marathon, a initial of a kind in Pakistan,” SOP said.
Karachiites run for a cause: Lakson Investments 1st SOP Unified Marathon 2016
After a success of their first marathon with approximately 1,800 participants, including 600 participants with disabilities, SOP believes this one marathon will emanate avenues of inclusion for people with and but disabilities.
The marathon will take place on Feb 5, 2017 during a Moin Khan Academy/DHA Sports Complex from 7:30am onwards.
The competition categories are 5km, 10km, half marathon and a new difficulty exclusively for children underneath 13 — a 700m kid’s dash.
People can select to walk, run or finish a marathon on a circle chair.
With final year’s marathon bringing over 1,800 people, including 600 persons with disabilities, this year a organisers are awaiting over 3,000 people to participate.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1308628/lakson-investments-2nd-sop-unified-marathon-2017/