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Emmanuel Ocaya, a 14 year old pupil on Mbarara Army boarding school, was the best performer after winning 60m huddles gold in the championship.
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The primary school kids that had represented Mbarara City at the ended Uganda Primary Schools Sports Association (UPSSA) national kids and special needs education athletics competitions in Kitgum, returned safely home with heads high after a promising performance.
A contingent of 24 athletes and 5 officials returned on Tuesday evening and on return, were ushered in to a warmly welcome by Brenda Asiimwe who represented the City Clerk, Rev Fr Paul Kruger, the Mbarara City primary schools co-curricular activities committee chairman, respective school heads and parents.
The happy athletes were cerebrating having finished 4th in the boys’ U14 category and 33rd overall, of the 156 district, city and municipality teams that turned up in Kitgum.
Mbarara City kids athletics team joyful on return from Kitgum where they finished 4th in boys U14 and 33rd overall.
While speaking at the mini welcome function at the City premises, Brenda Asiimwe thanked the atletes for a good performance and encouraged them to keep working hard.
“We want to thank you everyone for the good performance and as you know, you have been the cream of the entire Mbarara City so you have to keep working hard both in class and this God given talent so you become very important people tomorrow,” Asiimwe Said.
Mbarara City’s biggest individual performance came through Emmanuel Ocaya, a P5 pupil at Mbarara Army primary school that won a gold medal in the 60m huddles race and City sports officer Chleopas Musinguzi thanked the city administration for the support.
Emmanuel Ocaya, a 14 year old pupil on Mbarara Army boarding school, showing off a medal he won as the best performer (60m huddles gold) in the championship.
“We are grateful to the city administration for the support and we are happy that on our very first outing for a competition of the magnitude, we managed to score highly like this. We are looking forward to bettering this performance in the next competitions,” Musinguzi said.
The teams were competition in boys and girls U12 and boys and girls U14 and from the overall results from the organisers UPSSA, Agago district came out champions, having garnered 162,042 points, followed by Omoro that collected 155803 with hosts Kitgum coming 3rd on 154,602 points, Mbarara City garnered 114396 points for 33rd position
Nabilatuk (156th and last) 38856, Rukungiri Municipality (155) 41163, Sheema Municipality (154) 42025 and Kamuli Municipality (153) 42224 points, were the last performing districts respectively.
UPSSA kids athletics national championships top 3
Overall points
1-Agago 162,042
2-Omoro 155803
3-Kitgum 154,602
Last 4
156-Nabilatuk 38856
155-Rukungiri Municipality 41163
154-Sheema Municipality 42025
153-Kamuli Municipality 42224
