Overview:
By Wednesday evening, Uganda had won five medals so far in Swimming (3) and one apiece from Table Tennis and Boxing.
2025 Islamic Solidarity Games (Table Tennis):
Quarter-finals:
- Jemimah Nakawala & Judith Parvin Nangonzi (Uganda) 3-2 Marziyya Nurmatova & Aylin Asgarova (Azerbaijan)
Set scores:
- 12-10, 3-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-8
Uganda has won its fifth medal at the ongoing 6th Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 12th November 2025.
The female Table Tennis team overcame their counterparts from Azerbaijan 3-2 in gruelling fashion at the Boulevard SEF Arena 01B.
Jemimah Nakawala and Judith Parvin Nangonzi combined effort and energy to out-muscle the hard-fighting duo of Marziyya Nurmatoa and Alylin Asgarova.
The Ugandan teenagers who both study at Kibuli Secondary School won the first set 12-10.
Nurmatova and Asgarova recovered to take the second set 11-3 and level the tie 1-all.
Nakawaa and Nangonzi then restored their lead at 2-1 with an 11-8 victory in the third set.
The hard-battling Azerbaijan pair levelled 2-all with an 11-9 win for the fourth set to force a decider.
The fifth set was won by the Ugandans 11-8, much to the delight of the head coach, Alvin Katumba and the gallery, which included Uganda Table Tennis Association (UTTA) president Cyrus Mark Muwanga.
The victory assures Uganda of at least a medal in Table Tennis, having entered the medal bracket.
“This is a great victory and testament of how far Uganda’s Table Tennis has grown and developed,” Muwanga remarked.
Muwanga is a former Uganda Table Tennis player who played in the 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games hosted again by Saudi Arabia in Mecca city.
Uganda will take on Table Tennis power house Iran in the semi-finals on the much treasured Table One on Wednesday night.
Shima Safaei and Neda Shahsavari feature for Iran.
In the men’s doubles, Uganda’s Joseph Francis Sebatindira lost 1-4 to the Guyana opposition
Meanwhile, Uganda’s Nakawala fell to Egyptian Yousra Ashraf Abdelrazek 1-4 in the quarter finals.
Nakawala led the opening game 11-7 before succumbing in the subsequent four sets 7-11, 9-11, 3-11 and 6-11.
By Wednesday evening, Uganda had won five medals so far in Swimming (3) and one apiece from Table Tennis and Boxing.