Uganda wins 4 medals, third in the world rankings 🔵 Uganda results summary 🇺🇬 🏃 ✳ Senior Mens Result (TEAM bronze medal 🥉) 1. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 🥇 29:17 2. Aregawi 🇪🇹 🥈 29:26 3. Joshua Cheptegei 🇺🇬 🥉 29:37 R KIBET 🇺🇬 15th 30:40 M KIPROTICH 🇺🇬 18th 30:56 I KIBET 🇺🇬 24th 31:12 S KIBET 🇺🇬 …
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Uganda ready to defend individual and team titles in Australia 🔵 SCHEDULE ✳ Mixed Relay 7.30am ✳ U20 Race W 8.10am ✳ U20 Race M 8.50am ✳ Senior Race W 9.30am ✳ Senior Race M 10.30am Bathurst, Australia | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | With the fastest man on earth over …
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Uganda ready to defend individual and team titles in Australia February 18 🔵 Cross Country teams 🇺🇬 🏃 ✳ Men 312 Joshua CHEPTEGEI 315 Isaac KIBET 316 Rogers KIBET 317 Samuel KIBET 318 Jacob KIPLIMO 320 Martin Magengo KIPROTICH ✳ U20 men 310 Feb CHELEGOI 311 Hosea CHEMUTAI 313 Allan KIBET 314 Dan KIBET …
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Madrid, Spain | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan long-distance ace Joshua Cheptegei on Saturday won the San Silvestre 10km road race in Madrid Spain. The double 5,000m and 10,000m world athletics record holder won the 10km race in 29:09.11. Mohamed Katir El Haouzi from Eritrea came second as he crossed the …
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✳ Junior Women: 6km ✳ Junior Men: 8km ✳ Senior Women: 10km ✳ Senior Men: 10km Tororo, Uganda | BY LOUIS JADWONG & URN | The Uganda Athletics Federation has decided that only athletes who will compete in today’s National Cross Country race in Tororo will be given a ticket to the …
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Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | It does not come bigger than this anywhere else in the athletics world. The world’s top two cross country runners will battle for supremacy over 10km when, for the second time in a year, the eastern Ugandan town of Tororo hosts the …
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Kapchorwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s top long-distance runners Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo, will feature in the National Cross Country Championships. The two are currently preparing in Kapchorwa ahead of the run slated for December 10th at Tororo Golf Course. Cheptegei who couldn’t take part in the Great North …
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London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s top long distance stars Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo will feature in the Great North Run Half marathon in England. The duo are currently preparing ahead of the run slated for September 12th. They will face tough opposition from Ethiopian star runners …
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Kenyans second best again as Kiplimo steps the pedal in last lap 🔴 Commonwealth Games ✳ Kiplimo 🇺🇬 3.08.08 🥇 ✳ Kimeli 🇰🇪 13:08.19 ✳ Krop 🇰🇪 13:08.48 🔴World Under-20 Championships ✳ W 5000m final Prisca Chesang 🥉 Birmingham, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | The look on Nicholas Kimeli’s face (photo above) said it all. Jacob …
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🔴 SUNDAY 🇺🇬 ✳ 5,000m final 4.05am | Joshua Cheptegei & Oscar Chelimo Eugene, USA | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Ugandan ace Joshua Cheptegei will tonight have to be at his best to brush off a host of contenders vying for the last long distance medal of the Oregon World Athletics …
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