Mombasa Marathon Mombasa Marathon The Mombasa International Marathon (formerly known as the Mombasa Marathon) is an annual marathon hosted in Mombasa, Kenya. Currently sponsored by County Government of Mombasa and Safaricom. This year the marathon prize money has been increased for the 42 km to Ksh 1.5M and introduced Ksh 700k for the 10 km. with the course's start and finish lines at Treasury Square in the city's Old Town area. The marathon was first run in 1985, though winner statistics for the 1985–1988 races are unknown. Daniel Nzioka holds the record for most men's wins, with 3 (1988–1991). Grace Chebet holds
Mombasa Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent and China. 16th-century Portuguese voyager Duarte Barbosa claimed, "[Mombasa] is a place of great traffic and has a good harbour in which there are always moored small craft of many kinds and also great ships, both of which are bound from Sofala and others which come from Cambay and Melinde and others which sail to the island of Zanzibar." Vasco da Gama was the first known European to visit Mombasa, receiving a chilly reception in 1498. Two years later, the town was sacked by the Portuguese. In 1502, the sultanate became independent from Kilwa Kisiwani and