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News and sport stories from Kampala and Naboole in Uganda and other parts of the East Africa country.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won what is regarded as the toughest race on the planet at the World Cross Country in Denmark in March, and needed to draw on the same resources to win his first world 10,000m title in Doha on Sunday.
Continue readingEthiopia’s Muktar Edris, Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya, and Halimah Nakaayi of Uganda blaze through to earn their respective African countries gold medals on Day four at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar.on Monday.
Continue readingUgandan star athlete, Jacob Kiplimo, said his main focus is on winning medals for his country at the 2018 IAAF World U-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland next week.
Continue readingCommonwealth Games 10,000m champion Stella Chesang from Uganda said she would be under pressure to deliver a gold medal when she lines up at the 21st CAA Africa Championships in Asaba, Nigeria from 1-5 August, 2018.
Continue readingUganda’s Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei completed a Commonwealth Games double in a new Games record on the sixth day of athletics competition with a resounding victory in the men’s 10,000m in Gold Coast on Friday.
Continue readingUganda’s Stella Chesang wins the women’s 10,000m women’s gold medal and Chukwuebuka Enekwechi earns Nigeria a first medal, a silver, with a best throw of 21.14m in the men’s Shot Put at the on-going 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia on Monday.
Continue readingUganda’s Joshua Cheptegei sprinted clear to clinch the first track Commonwealth Games Athletics gold of Gold Coast 2018 in the men’s 5,000m at the Carrara stadium on Sunday.
Continue readingUganda’s Stephen Kiprotich, the 2012 Olympic gold medallist and the World Marathon champion, will return to the Haspa Marathon Hamburg on Sunday April 29.
Continue readingUganda’s Ronald Musagala has been added to a stellar line up of international stars competing at the 2018 Athletix Grand Prix Series and will run in the 1500m and 3000m.
Continue readingUganda’s Joshua Cheptegei, the World 10,000m silver medallist, is the first big name announced to compete at the inaugural Athletix Grand Prix Series 2018 in South Africa next month.
Continue readingThe International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has thrown out the appeal for disqualification of Ugandan athlete Ronald Musagala during the men’s 1500m heats.
Continue readingThe Ugandan Athletics coach, Peter Wemali, who was arrested for allegedly defiling and raping three female national runners, was said to have infected the athletes with the HIV virus, court heard on Thursday.
Continue readingUgandan athletics coach Peter Wemali, arrested for allegedly defiling and raping three teenage female national runners, was on Thursday evening ordered to be remanded in judicial custody for two weeks.
Continue readingKampala, Uganda to host the 2017 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, the IAAF Council announced at the Fairmont Hotel in Monaco on Tuesday.
Continue readingWinnie Nanyondo of Uganda scores a surprise victory to win the women’s 800m in her first international competition in 1:59.27, misses national record by 0.19 seconds, at the 53rd Golden Spike athletics meeting in Ostrava.
Continue readingUganda team to the IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships 2014 in Copenhagen on Sunday will be led by double Commonwealth Games champion Moses Ndiema Kipsiro.
Continue readingKampala University student Winnie Nanyondo led Uganda to an individual podium sweep and team dominance at the just ended 19th World University Cross Country championships at the Entebbe Golf Course on Saturday.
Continue readingMoses Kipsiro, will lead the senior men’s team to the 3rd Africa Cross Country Championships at Kololo Memorial grounds in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday March 16, 2014.
Continue readingA quartet stacked with talent comprising Stephen Kiprotich and Wilson Kipsang on the men’s side and Edna Kiplagat and Priscah Jeptoo for the women are contenders for the AIMS Best Marathon Runner (BMR) of the year Award, which will be…
Continue readingUganda’s World marathon champion, Stephen Kiprotich, said the IAAF World Championships gold is his best medal as compared to the one he won in the London 2012 Olympics Games. While responding to questions at a press conference in Moscow after…
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