Sikoria maintains fine form

By William MuwongeNATIONAL athlete Job Sikoria maintained his winning form this season taking the 3000m event at the Over Distance championship yesterday. The UPDF runner won the race in a slow time of eight minutes 42.43 seconds at Kyambogo University grounds. Sikoria also led the army team to a clean sweep of the event. Francis Yiga was second at 8:42.43 ahead of Joseph Nsubuga at 8:47.74. The win was Sikoria’s second this season after victory at the cross-country challenge last month. In the women’s 150m race, Justine Bayiga was unbeatable. Bayiga, from schools athletics powerhouse Makerere College school, won in 19,30 seconds. On field, Richard Otim clinched double success winning the discus in 31.74m and shot put in 14.52m. The Kitante school student also tossed the javelin at 47.35 to take second place behind the event winner James Obua at 56.5m. At the sametime, a Uganda Amateur Athletics Federation (UAAF) executive meeting was called off shortly after members had assembled. UAAF president Suleiman Habib took the decision after some members queried the presence of newly elected Uganda Athletics Coaches Association chairman Moses Twesigye-Omwe. The group urged that Twesigye-Omwe was not properly elected and therefore was not eligible to attend the meeting.