Uganda picks nine for Osaka
Aug 08, 2007
UGANDA will send its biggest ever contingent to the World Athletics Championships that start August 25 in Osaka, Japan.
By Norman Katende
Uganda’s key dates
August 25
Marathon (men)
August 26
10000m final (men)
August 28
3000m SC final (men)
August 29
400m final (women)
September 2
5000m final (men)
800m final (men)
The team: A. Masai and A. Malinga (Marathon), W. Busienei and B. Kiprop (10000m), S. Kiprotich and M. Kipsiro (5000m), A. Chepkirwok (800m), B. Kiplagat (3000m steeplechase) and J. Bayiga (400m)
UGANDA will send its biggest ever contingent to the World Athletics Championships that start August 25 in Osaka, Japan.
According to local athletics federation secretary Beatrice Ayikoru, a list of nine athletes, dressed by PUMA, will travel.
Despite women 3000m steeplechase world champion Dorcus Inzikuru pulling out, Ayikoru expressed confidence in the new crop of youngsters.
Boniface Kiprop, fourth place finisher at both the Olympic Games in Athens and last edition in Helsinki, and Africa Games and continental champion Moses Kipsiro will lead Uganda’s search for gold.
* Olympic 400 metres champion Jeremy Wariner ran a personal best of 43.50 seconds at the DN Gala meeting on Tuesday to equal fellow-American Quincy Watts as the third-fastest man ever.
Only his agent Michael Johnson and Butch Reynolds have run faster while Watts clocked the same time at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Wariner, who defends his world title in Osaka, Japan, this month, told reporters the race was “pretty much perfectâ€.
The time was a second stadium record in a row for Wariner.
Ethiopian Olympic 10,000 metres champion Kenenisa Bekele set a stadium record and a year’s best in the men’s 3,000 metres, clocking seven minutes 25.79 seconds.
Uganda’s key dates
August 25
Marathon (men)
August 26
10000m final (men)
August 28
3000m SC final (men)
August 29
400m final (women)
September 2
5000m final (men)
800m final (men)
The team: A. Masai and A. Malinga (Marathon), W. Busienei and B. Kiprop (10000m), S. Kiprotich and M. Kipsiro (5000m), A. Chepkirwok (800m), B. Kiplagat (3000m steeplechase) and J. Bayiga (400m)
UGANDA will send its biggest ever contingent to the World Athletics Championships that start August 25 in Osaka, Japan.
According to local athletics federation secretary Beatrice Ayikoru, a list of nine athletes, dressed by PUMA, will travel.
Despite women 3000m steeplechase world champion Dorcus Inzikuru pulling out, Ayikoru expressed confidence in the new crop of youngsters.
Boniface Kiprop, fourth place finisher at both the Olympic Games in Athens and last edition in Helsinki, and Africa Games and continental champion Moses Kipsiro will lead Uganda’s search for gold.
* Olympic 400 metres champion Jeremy Wariner ran a personal best of 43.50 seconds at the DN Gala meeting on Tuesday to equal fellow-American Quincy Watts as the third-fastest man ever.
Only his agent Michael Johnson and Butch Reynolds have run faster while Watts clocked the same time at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Wariner, who defends his world title in Osaka, Japan, this month, told reporters the race was “pretty much perfectâ€.
The time was a second stadium record in a row for Wariner.
Ethiopian Olympic 10,000 metres champion Kenenisa Bekele set a stadium record and a year’s best in the men’s 3,000 metres, clocking seven minutes 25.79 seconds.