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Masindi Army SS athletes and officials joyful after winning the three available titles.
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Masindi Army boarding school turned out overwhelming winners of the second edition of the UPDF secondary and polytechnic schools athletics (USPHA) competitions that climaxed over the weekend at the hosting Bombo Army School grounds.
The Masindi based side that competed against 12 other army schools across the country, clobbered all the available 3 trophies, by winning in both boys and girls categories before amassing top points for the overall title.
Azio Milka (13) the youngest athlete in the competition run 20:08:7 minutes for a gold in girls’ 5,000m and 5:04:0 minutes for another top finish in 1,500m before closing the day with the third gold in 800m in 2:26:4 minutes.
She combined with Elizabeth Apio who also clobbered four gold medals in an overloaded assignment after winning in 5000m at 17:48:8, 1,500m in 4:58:5, 800m after 2:21:7 and 3000m at 12:01:09 to hand their school the girls accolade on 222 points.
Sprinter Joshua Bwambale was Masindi boys’ hero as he also won two sprint gold in 100m crossing the tape on 11.01 seconds before taking home the 200m gold after 23.03 seconds to also propel the boys to the top with 186 points.
Masindi Army SS athletes and officials posing for a group photo with their three(3) trophies.
Masindi girls were followed by Mbarara Army boarding school that collected 109 points with Gulu Army SS coming third on 87 while in the boys, Airforce Entebbe came second to Masindi with 127 and Gulu Army SS third on 122 points
The dominance in both categories handed Masindi Army the overall title with 408 points, Gulu Army came second on 209 and Airforce Entebbe in third with 201 while the hosts Bombo Army SS finished in fourth place on 136 points.
The two day event that attracted 13 army schools and staged on the theme “Sports for unity, friendship, physical fitness and health’ was aimed at preparing army schools for better competition in the USSSA schools athletics competition due in July at Teso College Aleot.
The climaxing ceremony was attended among others assistant commissioner physical education MOES Lt Col Charles Ariko and presided over by Chief Joint Staff Formal Education, Sports and Culture (JS-FESC) Brig Gen. Richard Karemire.
Karemire appreciated the army school head teachers and their sports teachers for supporting and grooming the young talents and also promised to keep giving support to the schools while going out for national competitions.
Selected UPDF schools athletics results
Girls Points
Masindi Army 222
Mbarara Boarding Army 109
Gulu Army SS 87
Airforce Army SS 74
Boys
Masindi Army 186
Airforce Army SS 127
Gulu Army SS 122
Mbarara Army School 111
Overall
Masindi Army SS 408
Gulu Army SS 209
Airforce SS 201
Bombo Army 136
