Uganda Athletes seek qualification to World Championships | 3rd UAF National Trials

3^rd Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) Trials:

• Saturday, 3^rd April 2022 – Nelson Mandela National Stadium, Namboole  

As the 3rd Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) Trials get underway on Saturday 2^nd April 2022, no single athlete has managed to hit the entry requirements for the highly prestigious World Championships on the home track.

The World Athletics Championships in Oregon USA 15^th to 24^th July 2022, has the strongest qualification standards compared to the World Under 20 and Africa Senior standards.

Although the athletes still have time to make the entry requirements it is always very good to qualify early and devote more time to preparations.

This time round, Uganda Athletics Federation is permitting acceptable assistance to help athletes qualify.

Such permitted assistance will include the use of pacesetters and giving the athletes the lap and intermediary times in the middle and long-distance races where there are more realistic chances for athletes to qualify.

As for the field events, the qualification distance for Africa Senior Athletics championships will continue to be displayed to assist athletes to attempt to qualify.

So far only one athlete, Joseph Lalam of Police, has qualified for Africa Senior in Javelin.

If Uganda Prisons’ Victoria Awidi with a personal best of 52m can rediscover her form, then she will also qualify.

The events lined up for the third trial are: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, Long Jump, Shot Put, Javelin, and Discuss for men and women.

5,000m and 4 x 100m are for Women Only.

3000m Steeple Chase, 10,000m, 4 x 400m, and Triple Jump is for men only.

By closure of registration at midnight on Tuesday 29^th March 2022, over 320 athletes from about 40 clubs and District Associations had registered to take part in the trial.

Teams that have presented athletes for the 3^rd trials:

Clubs:

• Unity Athletics Club, TBAC, Lukungu Academy, Tela field, Kampala Kids Academy, Hared Jinja AC, Entebbe Athletics Club, UAFA, Sprinters Sports Academy, KCCA, Tuku Africa and Inzikuru Sports Academy

Universities:

• Makerere, Kyambogo, Ndejje, Kampala International University (KIU), Uganda Christian University (UCU), Kampala University (KU) and Makerere University Business School (MUBS)

Secondary Schools:

• Standard High, Old Kampala SS, Gombe SS, Nampunge C. H. Sc, Boston and Nalinya Lwantale

Forces:

• Police, Prisons, Airforce, Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), Uganda Peoples Defences Forces (UPDF)

District Associations:

• Bukwo, Tororo, Mukono, Wakiso, Nakawa, Mbarara Municipality, Arua, Kabarole, Buikwe and Masindi

The registered athletes include those who have just got back from Competitions abroad like:

Dismus Yeko and Knight Aciru from Portugal for the World University Cross country Championships where Yeko won Gold and Aciru was in 7^th position.

Jacent Nyamuhunge from South Africa, Grand Prix Athletics meets.

Farid Wabutwa from Djibouti for the 5^th Edition of Djibouti International Track Meet. These are likely to spice up the standards of performance.

So far the UAF trials have enabled 15 athletes to qualify for Africa Senior Athletics Championships and World U-20.

The provisional list of those who have hit the qualification standards so far stands as follows.

Africa Senior (Mauritus 8^th – 12th June)  and Commonwealth Games (Birmigham 28^th July-6th August)

	Names		Events	T/d	Trial
1	Nyamuhunge Jacent	Police	100m	11.79	1st
	Nyamuhunge Jacent	Police	200m	24.07	1st
2	Shida Leni	Police	400m	53.22	1st
3	Halima Nakaayi	UWA	400m	53.50	1st
4	Janat Chemusto	Police	1500m	4:14.30	1st
	Janat Chemusto	Police	5000m	15:54.54	2nd
5	Prisca Chesang	Police	1500m	4:14.81	1st
	Prisca Chesang	Police	5000m	15:52.09	2nd
6	Belinda Chemutai	Prisons	1500m	4:18.20	1st
7	Josephine Joyce Lalam	Police	Javelin	52.55	2nd
8	Tom Dradriga	UWA	800m	1.46.58	1st
9	Pius Adomi	Police	200m	21.22	2nd
10	Haron Adoli	Prisons	400m	46.59	2nd
11	Omalla Eugene		400m	46.04	USA
12	Benson Okot		100m	10.38	Nairobi
	Benson Okot		200m	21.06	Nairobi
13	Tarsis Orogot		200m	21.07	Nairobi
14	Ayikoru Scovia		400m	53.74	USA

World U 20- Cali ,Colombia 1^st – 6^th August 2022

	Names		Events	T/d	Trial
1	Hosea Kiprop	Jocdef	1500m	3:48.34	2nd
2	Peter Maru	Arua	1500m	3:45.65	2nd
3	Dan Kibet	Jocdef	5000m	13:46.06	1st
	Dan Kibet	Jocdef	3000m	7:53.74	Djibouti
4	Rotich Silas	Police	5000m	13:46.56	1st
5	Chesang Prisca	Police	5000m	15:52.09	2nd
	Chesang Prisca	Police	1500m	4:18.81	1st
6	Rwotomiya E Oyet	Kingston	400m	47.40	Kingston
7	Ndiwa Toroitich		3000mSC

Entry Requirements for World Championships, Africa senior and W U20

Women	Women	Women	Event	Men	Men	Men
Africa	WU-20	WC		WC	WU-20	Africa
11.94	11.90	11.15	100m	10.05	10.60	10.44
24.24	24.40	22.80	200m	20.24	21.40	21.24
54.74	55.20	51.35	400m	44.90	47.60	46.64
2:06.00	2:09.00	1.59.50	800m	1:45.20	1:51.00	1:47.30
4:21.00	4:29.00	4.04.20	1500m	3.35.00	3:48.50	3:39.00
	9:32.00		3000m		8:15.00
16:18.00	16:40.00	14.10.00	5000m	13.13.50	14:15.00	13:30.00
35:20.00		31.25.00	10000m	27.28.00		28:38.00
10:30.00	10:36.00	9.30.00	3000m Sc	8.22.00	9:08.00	8:36.00
6.15m	6.12m	6.82	L Jump	8.22	7.55m	7.80m
13.00m	12.85m	14.32	T Jump	17.14	15.55m	16.00m
14.90m	14.50m	18.50	Shot put	21.10	18.20m	16.80m
49.00m	48.50m	63.50	Discus	66.00	56.50m	53.50m
49.00m	50.00m	64.00	Javelin	85.00	69.00m	69.00m