Olympics

Today is the day for the 5000m race and Ugandans have high expectations from Uganda’s Cheptegei and Kiplimo. The two athletes will also be aiming for first and second place. This is also their last shot at winning a medal at the Olympics this year. The only difference today is the distance of the races. However, just like the previous ...

News coming in indicates that Peruth Chemutai has won Uganda’s first gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Chemutai was competing in the 3000m steeplechase. The athlete becomes the first Ugandan woman to win an Olympic event and the third Ugandan after John Akibua and Stephen Kiprotich. She also set a national record of 9:01:41 to win the 3000m steeplechase title. ...

Krystina Timanovskaya, a 24-year-old Belarus sprinter boarded a flight to Vienna on Wednesday morning. She had earlier refused to follow orders to fly home early from the Tokyo Olympics about a week ago, but she finally left. Earlier on, she had been expected to travel directly to Warsaw as Poland had granted her a humanitarian visa. However, she changed her ...

President Museveni took to his Twitter page to congratulate Ugandans Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo for securing Uganda’s only medals in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics in Japan. Cheptegei was the much-profiled athlete in the 10,000m that happened yesterday 30th July. This is after a number of impressive performances prior to the Olympics. His countryman Kiplimo wasn’t far from the favourites ...

Uganda’s 800m Women running pair of Winnie Nanyondo and Halima Nakaayi have registered progress. The two managed to make it to the semi-finals of the Women’s 800m race in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics on Friday July 30. Nanyondo posted a time of 2:02.02 and finished second in the Heat one that France’s Renelle Lamote won. She recorded a time of ...