Uganda’s long-distance runners Stella Chesang, Rebecca Cheptegei, and Mercyline Chelangat finished 8th, 44th and 69th respectively in Sunday’s Women’s marathon, a race that concluded the 2024 Paris Olympics competitions. Chesang crossed the finishing line with a time of 2:26:01, Rebecca completed the 42 km race at 2:32:14, while Chelangat recorded […]
Two of Uganda’s long-distance runners Sarah Chelangat and Annet Chelangat will compete for medals tonight (9:57 pm) in the women’s 10,000m final. Uganda had entered three athletes for the race, however, Joy Cheptoyek withdrew after she missed the women’s 5000m race. The two will face competition from Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet, […]
It was a bad night for Uganda’s Olympians as Tarsis Orogot didn’t go through while Leonard Chemutai missed the podium. Orogot failed to progress to the final of 200m after finishing 6th in his heat with a time of 20:64(20 seconds, 64 microseconds). Usual suspect, America’s Kenny Bednarek won the […]
Uganda’s 2020 Tokyo Olympics 3000m steeplechase gold medalist, Peruth Chemutai failed to defend her title at the ongoing Paris Olympics, settling for silver on Tuesday. Chemutai who was in control throughout the race looked poised to defend the Olympic title but lost to Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi towards the end […]
The 2024 Olympics hosted by Paris, France were officially opened with the opening ceremony that took place outside a stadium on Friday July 26th. The competitions that will have over 10,500 Athletes had the spectacular opening ceremony on a river with boats carrying delegations from different countries. Team Uganda will […]
