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Uganda’s athletes heading to the 2026 Commonwealth Video games have been promised a good-looking reward ought to they return with medals.
State Minister for Sports activities Peter Ogwang introduced that each Ugandan athlete who wins a gold medal in Glasgow will obtain Shs100 million, with silver medalists incomes Shs50 million and bronze medalists Shs30 million.
The announcement was made on Thursday through the official flag-off of Staff Uganda at Mestil Resort in Nsambya. Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja was the chief visitor, whereas Nationwide Council of Sports activities (NCS) Common Secretary Dr Bernard Ogwel and officers from numerous sports activities federations additionally attended.
Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja flags off Staff Uganda.
Ogwang challenged the athletes to construct on Uganda’s spectacular Commonwealth Video games document, assuring them that authorities had absolutely funded the workforce’s preparations and participation.
“We want medals,” he stated. “The cash is offered.”
He additionally reminded the athletes that Commonwealth Video games medalists qualify for presidency month-to-month rewards of Shs5 million for gold, Shs3 million for silver and Shs1 million for bronze, below the nationwide sports activities rewards scheme.
Uganda will ship 55 athletes, together with 5 para athletes, to the Video games in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2. The delegation contains 34 girls and 21 males, competing in athletics, boxing, basketball 3×3, judo, netball, swimming, para swimming, monitor biking, weightlifting and para powerlifting.
Athletics stays Uganda’s strongest medal prospect, with Olympic champion Peruth Chemutai returning because the nation’s solely medalist from the Birmingham 2022 Video games. The athletics squad additionally contains Oscar Chelimo, Halimah Nakayi, Rebecca Chelangat, Dan Kibet and Kenneth Kiprop.
The ladies’s 3×3 basketball workforce and Uganda’s judo workforce will make their Commonwealth Video games debut, whereas the She Cranes return after ending fifth in Birmingham. Seven members of the present netball squad have earlier Commonwealth Video games expertise.
Some athletes, together with swimmers Jesse Ssengonzi and Jordan Samula, are based mostly in america, whereas Gloria Muzito will journey from Europe to affix the workforce in Glasgow.
Ogwang stated Uganda has competed at each Commonwealth Video games since its debut in 1954 and has gained 58 medals;19 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze all from athletics and boxing.
Commonwealth Video games Closing workforce
Athletics workforce
Ladies
1.Leni Shida (400m)
2.Esther Chebet (5000m)
3.Maureen Banura (400m)
4.Chebet Maureen (800m)
5.Halimah Nakayi (800m)
6.Peruth Chemutai (3000m Steeplechase)
7.Pleasure Cheptoyek (10,000m)
8.Rebecca Chelangat (10,000m)
Males
1.Dan Kibet (10000m,5000m)
2.Adoli Haron (400m)
3.Cherop Samuel Simba (10,000m)
4.Krop Dominic (Mile)
5.Silas Chemutai (Mile)
6.Kenneth Kiprop (10,000m,5000m)
7.Eric Okwi (400m)
8.Oscar Chelimo (5000m)
9.David Berkham Otim (Lengthy Leap)
Blended Relay
- Banura,Okwi,Adoli
- Leni Shida
Basketball 3×3 Ladies
1. Melissa Akullu
2. Jamilla “Gunter” Nansikombi
3. Jane Asinde
4. Perus Nyamwenge
Observe Biking
1. Charles Kagimu
Boxing bombers workforce
Feminine
1.Emily Nakalema ( Welterweight 65kgs)
2.Angel Katushabe (Fly weight 51kgs)
Male
1.Ibrahim Kemis (Mild weight 60kgs)
2.Bate Nuhu ( Welterweight 65kgs)
3.Alfred Ojok ( Mild heavy weight 80kgs)
4.Abdul Aziz ( Heavy Weight 92kgs)
Para-powerlifting (workforce left on Wednesday July 15,)
1.Denis Mbaziira (Heavy Weight 72kgs)
2.Janet Nakayobyo (Mild Weight)
3.Rebecca Zawedde (Heavy Weight)
Weightlifting
55kg Class (Snatch-100kg)
Goal (230kg)
1.Davis Niyoyita (African quantity two rank)
Swimming Athletes
Males
1. Jesse Ssengonzi (100m Butterfly and 50m Butterfly)
2. Tendo Mukalazi (50m Freestyle,50m Breaststroke and 100m Freestyle)
3. Tendo Kawumi (50m Backstroke,50m Freestyle,100m Freestyle & 50m Butterfly)
4. Jordan Samula (100m Breaststroke,100m Butterfly,50m Breaststroke & 200m Breaststroke)
Feminine
1.Gloria Muzito (50m Butterfly,200m Freestyle,100m Freestyle & 50m Freestyle)
2.Kirabo Namutebi (50m Butterfly,50m Breaststroke & 50m Freestyle)
3.Tara Naluwoza (100m Freestyle & 50m Backstroke)
Para – Swimmers
1.Husnah Kukundakwe (SB8 100m Breast Stroke & S9 100m Freestyle)
2.Condoleeza Nakazibwe (S9 100m Freestyle)
Para-powerlifting (workforce left on Wednesday July 15,)
1.Denis Mbaziira (Heavy Weight 72kgs)
2.Janet Nakayobyo (Mild Weight)
3.Rebecca Zawedde (Heavy Weight)
Netball She Cranes ( Staff presently in South Africa)
Forwards
1.Mary Nuba
2.Rachel Nanyonga
3.Shadiah Nassanga
4.Alice Isoto
Mid Courtroom
5.Margaret Bagala
6.Mercy Batamuliza
7.Joan Ryekoboth
8.Lilian Achola
Defenders
9.Gloria Ayaa
10.Hanisha Muhameed
11. Nasimu Mutesi
12.Shafie Nalwanja
Coaches
Rashid Mubiru
Ruth Meeme
Netball Schedule
Group B
- New Zealand
- Jamaica
- Wales
- Uganda
- Scotland
- Trinidad and Tobago
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- Uganda v Trinidad and Tobago
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Group A
- Australia
- England
- South Africa
- Malawi
- Tonga
- Northern Eire
The swimming athletes Jesse Ssengonzi and Jordan Samula are US based mostly whereas Gloria Muzito is in Europe and can be a part of the workforce in Glasgow
On the 2022 Video games in Birmingham, Uganda despatched its biggest-ever contingent of 72 athletes and completed with 5 medals three gold and two bronze to position sixteenth total.
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The statistics are not a surprise to Umar Ali, who plays for Route One Rovers – a semi-professional team in Bradford.
During Ramadan last year, he was racially abused by a group of opposition spectators as he was waiting to come on as a substitute.
“It was our first game playing while we were fasting,” he said. “So obviously we were hungry that day and I was a bit less patient.
“Then when I was getting ready to come on, one of the fans said I should shave my beard off and that I looked like a paedophile.
“One of them picked up a child who was about six, seven years old, and said ‘I bet your wife’s the same age as this child’.”
Umar described the men as in their sixties.
“It’s quite distressing, because they’re older than my dad,” he added. “They’re my grandad’s age, and they felt comfortable enough to stand there and make comments like that.”
Umar said the assistant referee heard the comments and told the referee, who he claims did not take any action.
The police were eventually contacted and the spectators identified. Umar has not been informed of an outcome.
His manager Mohammed Patel was in the dugout during the match and said – while the opposition coaching staff apologised on behalf of their fans – he felt the officials fell short and should have removed those spectators shouting racist and Islamophobic abuse at his players.
Patel said: “It was a really emotional day for us, because the question we asked ourselves after that game is ‘Why is it still happening?’ Some of the things that were said were absolutely horrific.
“In my opinion, more needs to be done from the top down. We’re actively engaging and working with local FAs to try and navigate this problem, but it absolutely needs to be mandated.”
The Northern Counties East Football League fined the opposition club £300 and gave them nine disciplinary points. But Patel says that does not address the real problem.
“We’ve seen harsher punishments for violent conduct on the pitch or red cards, even administrative mistakes,” he added.
“Something as serious as this, we were absolutely not happy with the result.”
Patel has been lobbying the Football Association, but has not yet received a response.
He said: “Precedents need to be set, harsher sanctions need to be introduced. This comes from the top down.”
The FA said in a statement: “We have introduced tougher sanctions for clubs and individuals, a new behaviour improvement programme, and penalty points accumulation charges in the grassroots game.
“This builds on the steps taken to allow for deductions of league points from clubs that are repeated offenders of serious misconduct.”
Gymnast Ruby Evans has won Wales’ first Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow with victory in the floor final.
Evans, 19, performed the final routine of the women’s programme and defeated England’s Abigail Martin into silver, with her team-mate Shantae-Eve Amankwaah securing bronze.
Evans left the arena in tears on Sunday after her disappointing sixth in the all-round individual competition, that after Wales finished fourth in the team event.
Now, after Welsh identical twins Abigail and Emily Roper won bronze medals within a couple of hours of each other on Monday, Evans has delivered gold.
It was the first victory for Team Wales in Scotland and a ninth medal alongside two silver and six bronze.
There is also a guaranteed podium position for boxer Connor Williams after he reached the semi-finals.
An amateur cricket match has made global headlines after a fielder was accused of cheating by clicking his fingers to get a wicket.
The North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League has started an investigation into a second XI Division 2 game between Saltburn and Norton.
A viral video on social media appears to show a Saltburn fielder clicking his fingers as the ball passes Noman Shabir’s bat before being caught by wicketkeeper Josh Bowes. Saltburn appeal and the umpire gives Shabir out.
It has been suggested that the finger-clicking was designed to trick the umpire into thinking the batter edged the ball.
Saltburn won by 159 runs and are top of Division 2 by 17 points.
“The league have received a formal complaint regarding alleged incidents in a Division Two game on Saturday,” the league said in a statement on X.
“A full investigation has been initiated and until such time as the formal processes are complete no further comment will be made.”
Last week Bowes took eight catches in Saltburn’s 22-run win over Shildon Railway. The men’s Test record for catches by a keeper in an innings is seven.
Bowes leads the league standings with 31 catches, 10 more than any other player.
Rory Cotterill, who captained Middlesbrough second XI during a 29-run defeat by Saltburn last month, responded to a social media post containing the video and alleged two further incidents of cheating by Saltburn in that match.
The original video of the incident has had more than three million views on X, with publications in Australia and New Zealand among those to report it.
The BBC has contacted the league and Saltburn. Norton declined to comment.
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