Gold medal for Uganda's Nakaayi

Sep 10, 2011

Sprinter Halima Nakaayi has won Uganda a gold medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Isle of Man.

Sprinter Halima Nakaayi has won Uganda a gold medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Isle of Man.

Nakaayi beat the 400m field in 56.13 seconds Saturday evening. Uganda has now picked a gold and one silver medal.

The day started with Zakaria Kiprotich winning the 2000m steeplechase sivler medal a day after Nancy Cheptegei had picked a similar medal in the 2000m steeplechase.

Full results here .

G S B
England 14 7 5
Australia 13 11 8
Wales 3 5 6
S.Africa 2 2 8
N.Zealand1 3 3
Uganda 1 2 0
Scotland 1 1 2
Kenya 1 1 1
N.Ireland 1 1 1
Antigua 1 0 0

** Details in the Monday New Vision newspaper

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