The rapidly-growing technology business has taken over from Vodafone and signed up to support this annual event for the next five years.

18/04/2018, St. Julian’s / Malta – When one of the world’s leading iGaming companies officially inaugurated its new headquarters in Malta this year, its CEO and founder Robin Reed stressed that they wanted to become a bigger part of the local community. Now, underlining that promise, GiG – also Gaming Innovation Group – is set to sponsor one of the island’s largest annual sporting events – the Malta Marathon. The event will now be known as the GiG Malta Marathon.

“We are extremely proud to have partnered up with the Malta Marathon,” says GiG COO and General Manager for Malta, Mikael Angman. “We employ many young people, Maltese and foreign. Lots of us identify with this event and look forward to supporting it, while also embracing the challenge of taking part in whatever way we can. In fact, I am sure that many of our team members will be out there, running and racing, on the day.”

The Malta Marathon first began in 1986, when it was founded by Joe Micallef. Back then, 50 Maltese and 59 international participants took part. Those numbers are completely different now, with over 2,000 Maltese and 3,000 international participants joining the 2018 race.