Tag Archives: Athletics

Nassau, Bahamas  | THE INDEPENDENT |   ThreeUgandan teenagers are in Bahamas to fly the country’s flag at the Commonwealth Youth Games that started on Tuesday. Uganda has a rich history in the Commonwealth Youth Games, having won 14 medals in track and field athletics at the last three games in  Samoa in …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | South Africa completed a clean sweep in the boy’s sprints to top the medals table for the first time at the World Under-18 athletics championships in Nairobi on Sunday. South Africa, fifth in 1999 and 2005, amassed ten medals including five golds over the five-day championships. …

London, United Kingdom | THE INDEPENDENT |  David Emong has done it again. Uganda’s Paralympic silver medallist put Uganda on the mark at the World Para Athletics Championships in London by winning the country’s first ever gold on Saturday night. Emong did it in style, running 3:58.36in the 1,5oom T46 event to beat  defending …

Nairobi, Kenya| THE INDEPENDENT REPORTER | There was no medal, but three Ugandans advanced into finals as half of the country’s team of 12 started action on the opening day of the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017 on Wednesday. Two of Uganda’s athletes advanced from the 1500m heats to the semis. Hosea …

Kiprotich a doubt, Cheptegei going for double Kampala, Uganda| THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | Former World and Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich is battling to be fit in time for the London World Athletics Championship. A Ugandan athletics official confirmed Kiprotich is a doubt, saying his preparations since his last race …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  British athletics superstar Mo Farah eased to victory in the 3000 metres at the Diamond League meet in the London Stadium on Sunday and said off the track matters didn’t concern him. The 34-year-old — a quadruple Olympic and world champion having achieved the …

Ugandan top distance ace Joshua Cheptegei finished third in the 5000m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, in an impressive personal best time of 12:59.83. The time is well inside his season best of 13:02.84, and previous personal best of  13:00.60 and saw him qualify for the 5000m …

  Uganda’s top distance runner Joshua Cheptegei continued his stready return to the track with yet another 4th place finish, this time in the 3ooom at the Paris Diamond Athletics League on Saturday night. In front of 14,568 spectators  at Charléty Stadium, Cheptegei clocked 7:34.96 to finish fourth in a race …

Ostrava, Czech Republic | AFP |  Usain Bolt racked up a straightforward 100m victory on the European bow of his farewell season, but likely successor Wayde van Niekerk stole the headlines in Ostrava with a world record in the little-run 300m. Bolt struggled with a stiff back and a pedestrian …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Former world cross country champion Agnes Tirop beat training partner Irene Cheptai to win the women’s 10,000 metres on the first day of the Kenyan world championship trials on Friday. Tirop, winner of the women’s senior cross country title in Guiyang, China in 2015, sprinted …