Marathon

Joshua Cheptegei, the Ugandan three-time world champion has been ruled out of the 5000m men’s event at the ongoing World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The Team Uganda’s captain who clinched the 10,000m gold a few days ago has apparently pulled out due to a foot injury. Benjamin Njia, the national coach, confirmed to reporters that the 26-year-old gold medalist ...

Following the 10th edition of the Airtel sponsored Kabaka birthday run that proclaimed to be the biggest ever staged in Uganda with more than 100,000 tickets sold as the loyalists braved an overnight Sunday morning shower to pace around Buganda’s capital Mengo in Kampala. The mass participation race which offered no prizes and official timing concluded on Sunday as the ...

Uganda’s Peruthi Chemutai made an incredible comeback to win bronze following an awkward fall during a competition yesterday. She finished third in the women’s 3000m steeplechase race at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Alexander stadium, Birmingham, United Kingdom. She fell down and got injured, regardless though, she got up and soldiered on to race to the end – finishing third ...

American athlete Michael Norman had a disappointing finish at the Tokyo Olympics when he finished 5th due to a thigh injury. Due to this, he failed to qualify for the semi-finals in the Doha worlds in 2019 with a thigh injury. However though, he managed to make up for this by winning the world 400m gold in Eugene on Friday. ...

The name Joshua Cheptegei has become quite synonymous with medals but more especially gold medals. The Ugandan long-distance runner is at it again as he clinched another gold medal today morning. This was during the Nike Prefontaine Classic in the United States of America. Cheptegei clocked a time of 12:57:99. This was in the 5000m and although he didn’t set ...