Motor Sport
Team Uganda complete MX double
Rolf Kihara(21), Uganda’s Ali Omar(22), Elias Sherdman(97), and Owen Ashley (123) competing in the MX 65 category at the third leg of the 2012 FIM Motorocross Series at Jamhuri Park on Sunday. COURTESY PhOTO
Posted Tuesday, December 11 2012 at 10:54
In Summary
Motocross. Uganda won their first regional title since 2009 largely because they hosted two of the event’s three legs.
KAMPALA.
Uganda are the regional motocross champions after winning the third and final leg of the FIM Central Africa 2012 Motocross Series held at Jamhuri Park in Nairobi on Sunday. This comes four months after the Team Uganda won the Africa Motocross Championship title.
Uganda collected 4,644 points beating Kenya by 1,831 while Tanzania finished a distant third with 363 points. Uganda last won the regional title in 2009.
“It has been a wonderful year for the motocross,” said Team Uganda captain Arthur Blick Jr.
“We won our first-ever continental title and now we have bagged the regional one. The money we have spent hiring foreign riders to train our boys has not gone to waste. It shows how far we have come.”
Apart from the regional title, Fortune Ssentamu and Ali Omar won the individual accolades in MX 50cc and MX 65cc categories respectively.
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