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Kipsiro tops utl-uspa list - New Vision


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Kipsiro tops utl-uspa list
New Vision, Uganda - 17 hours ago
The soft-spoken runner was also recognised for finishing fourth in the 5000m Beijing Olympics where he emerged the best Ugandan performer, before winning ...
Kipsiro, Lady Cranes short listed for 2008 award Daily Monitor
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Kipsiro toast of athletics season - New Vision

Kipsiro toast of athletics season
New Vision, Uganda - Dec 31, 2008
At the Olympic Games in Beijing which the two athletes entered as Uganda's main medal hopefuls, the outcome was different. Kipsiro put up a spirited display ...

Wrangles rock ‘sweet science’, minister intervenes - New Vision

Wrangles rock ‘sweet science’, minister intervenes
New Vision, Uganda - Dec 31, 2008
Uganda did not fair any better with only one boxer qualifying for the Olympic Games in Beijing. At the Games, flyweight Ronald Serugo was shown the early ...

2008: A year of highs and lows - Daily Monitor

Daily Monitor

2008: A year of highs and lows
Daily Monitor, Uganda - Dec 26, 2008
For 12 years, Uganda has not won a medal at the Olympic Games. An 11-man team that had seven star runners travelled to the Beijing Games hoping to halt the ...

We witnessed both the best and worst of sport in 2008 - Daily Monitor

Daily Monitor

We witnessed both the best and worst of sport in 2008
Daily Monitor, Uganda - Dec 31, 2008
Charles Dickens could as well have had world sport and it’s Ugandan version in 2008 in mind when he wrote about the paradox of life in Paris in A Tale of ...

Athletics stars to grace Acon wedding - New Vision

Athletics stars to grace Acon wedding
New Vision, Uganda - Dec 31, 2008
The Beijing Olympics silver medalist and Australian long distance runner Eloise Wellings jet in this week in time for an introduction ceremony in Butende, ...

China backs Uganda’s free trade zone plan - Daily Monitor

China backs Uganda’s free trade zone plan
Daily Monitor, Uganda - Dec 16, 2008
Officials at Chinese company Paradise Investment told Business Daily that the company had signed an agreement last month with Ugandan partner Kagera ...

Who gets what this Christmas - New Vision

New Vision

Who gets what this Christmas
New Vision, Uganda - Dec 23, 2008
Lwakataka was Uganda’s best driver in the Pearl of Africa rally where she finished 7th overall in a rally dominated by resolute foreign drivers. ...

Professional boxing continues to decline - Daily Monitor

Professional boxing continues to decline
Daily Monitor, Uganda - Dec 22, 2008
Although Uganda missed his services at the Beijing Olympics where he would have probably ended the country’s medal drought, Bogere is not regretting his ...

Sport in brief - New Vision

Sport in brief
New Vision, Uganda - Dec 28, 2008
OLYMPICS - The Uganda Badminton Association has already identified three for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The association chief operations officer Simon ...