/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/690274/-/f7oknyz/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/Hared+Marathon++Nyakisi+to+test+Suuto/-/690274/1410162/-/x74rl0z/-/index.html Jane Suuto’s readiness for the Olympic Games will come under test at the Hared Source of the Nile Marathon in Jinja this Sunday. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/Exciting+talents+unearthed+at+Rwamuhanda+Memorial+Championship/-/690274/1406558/-/4fcg2u/-/index.html Dorothy Akampurira and Ronald Bwonyanda are potential world beaters, Western Region Athletics Association (WRAA) coaches have said. The duo, aged 13, humiliated older opponents at the Rwamuhanda Memorial Championship held in Kabale at the weekend. 2012-05-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1404532/-/ddkif7/-/index.html Kiplagat is expected to represent Uganda at the London 2012 Olympics 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/Kiplagat++Ayeko+in+Doha+meet/-/690274/1403858/-/niyxwq/-/index.html Ugandan steeplechase runners Benjamin Kiplagat and Simon Ayeko will contest for honours at the Samsung Diamond League opener in Doha tonight. 2012-05-11T11:50:26Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1402218/-/ddj2dv/-/index.html National runner Geoffrey Kusuro will use the Hared Source of the Nile Marathon 10km race to guage his fitness ahead of the London Olympics. 2012-05-08T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1396428/-/d030kg/-/index.html Denmark-based Ugandan runner Samuel Lutabi has donated training equipment to upcoming athletes currently undergoing drills at a holiday camp in Kabale. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1390070/-/cyxqms/-/index.html Hours earlier, UOC president Rogers Ddungu lambasted his deputy William Blick in a scathing press conference. But late Wednesday evening, the two momentarily buried their hatchet to attend a cocktail to mark 100 days to the beginning of the world’s biggest games. Rivals Ddungu and Blick did not engage one another. Even Peninah Kabenge, currently locked in a standoff with erstwhile boss Ddungu, kept her distance. 2012-04-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1388400/-/cyhu9h/-/index.html From fighting maternal and infant mortality, organisers of the Hared Source of the Nile Marathon have now joined the battle against the dreaded HIV/Aids. “Many people out there are suffering and we need to come to their rescue,” Ben Akamu, the marathon’s organising committee head said while launching the event yesterday. “If you have a relative battling the scourge, you know how tough it is to look after them. But we believe that we can give a helping hand through sports, running in particular.” 2012-04-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1382768/-/cydqud/-/index.html Annet Negesa, competing in her first national trials, won the women’s 800m and 1500m. Kampala University’s Winnie Nanyondo was also impressive. 2012-04-08T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1376768/-/cxu08q/-/index.html Middle-distance athlete, Annet Negesa is doing all she can to clinch a medal come this year’s London Olympics. 2012-03-30T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1368418/-/cx9rhy/-/index.html Marathoner Kiprotich has risen steadily in the last few years to become a formidable long distance runner for Uganda 2012-03-17T15:01:05Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1365164/-/cx7mbe/-/index.html After three weeks of intensive training in Kween district, 16 athletes have been named by coach Benjamin Longiross ahead of the Africa Cross Country Championships due in Cape Town on March 18. 2012-03-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1364870/-/cx73i7/-/index.html The search for Uganda’s maiden medal at the 15th edition of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) world indoor championships in Istanbul Turkey fell on a hard rock yesterday. 2012-03-12T08:29:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1363160/-/cx68nx/-/index.html Double Commonwealth gold medalist Moses Kipsiro saved the best for last on Friday night as he qualified for today’s finals of International Amateur Athletic Indoor Championship (IAAF) in the 3000m in Istanbul Turkey. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1360858/-/cx4b6y/-/index.html Lately, Stephen Kiprotich dreams of an Olympic medal very often. “Don’t even ask about my expectations at the Olympics,” Kiprotich told Daily Monitor in a telephone interview yesterday. “I only expect one thing, a medal.” 2012-03-06T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1360108/-/cx45kc/-/index.html After winning the right to host the 2014 Africa Cross country Championships, the Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) is keen on hosting a successful African meet. 2012-03-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1325684/-/cuqkp7/-/index.html Annet Negesa was on Saturday crowned the 2011 Athlete of the Year by Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF). The 20-year-old middle distance runner beat four-time athlete of the year Moses Kipsiro, steeplechaser Jacob Araptany and marathoners Stephen Kiprotich and Jane Suuto to the accolade. 2012-02-13T07:08:50Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1323994/-/cup9g4/-/index.html Uganda’s athletics hero Davis Kamoga has lost his mother. Joyce Nanfuka passed on yesterday morning at Mulago Hospital. She was 72. “It’s very sad,” Kamoga, the last Ugandan to win an Olympic medal, said. The 1996 Olympic 400m bronze medallist revealed his mother had been battling high blood pressure and diabetes for close to three years. “She has been through a lot of pain. 2012-02-09T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1317224/-/cu6c63/-/index.html Cerina Abong retained the Kyabazinga Regional Cross-country 12km senior men’s title after clocking 41:25 minutes in Jinja on Saturday. Michael Ssali finished second in 42:47 minutes. In the Western Region cross-country held in Kabale, Prudence Kemigisha won the junior women’s 6km. Willy Kato beat the men. 2012-01-31T08:24:37Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1314074/-/cu47r3/-/index.html The Western Region Athletics Association (WRAA) will close its month-long holiday athletics camp with a cross-country competition in Kabale, Saturday. 2012-01-25T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1295626/-/cfym3e/-/index.html Athletics. The biggest doping casualty of the year was Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings, who was handed a lifetime ban by a Jamaican anti-doping panel following a second doping violation in seven years. 2011-12-26T14:30:45Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1280446/-/cf9k33/-/index.html Cranes coach Bobby Williamson reckons his team played impressively in the 2-1 win over Zanzibar and wants the rhythm taken into the game against Somalia at Azam Stadium today. 2011-11-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1280336/-/cf9j9q/-/index.html Some few years ago there was hope it would grow into one of the finest marathons in East Africa and probably beyond. Right from the first edition in 2004, the birth of the MTN Kampala marathon looked like one of the best things to ever happen in Uganda’s athletics. 2011-11-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1280338/-/cf9j9s/-/index.html Warriors have numerous match winners but Sam Gombya was the unlikeliest last man standing against UCU Canons on Saturday night. 2011-11-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/Athletics/-/690274/1280332/-/cf9j9m/-/index.html Uganda national record holder Jane Suuto won her third MTN Kampala marathon title yesterday to momentarily ease the perennial Kenyan dominance of the annual event. 2011-11-27T21:00:00Z