Finally it's D-day as the MTN Marathon takes center stage this morning starting at the Kololo Airstrip. After two months of high-altitude residential training in Bukwo, Joseph Nsubuga should have few or no excuses going into today's race.
Nothing seems to excite and bond Ugandans like sports. That was very much evident during the sixth edition of the MTN Kampala Marathon on Sunday. At the venue -Kololo Airstrip, I met a lanky white young man called Alexander, born and raised in Uganda. Like me, it was his first shot at the marathon and we both had registered for the 10km race. As the race picked rhythm, I noticed Indians, Koreans ...
Save for Namboole there can hardly be a more suitable venue for the MTN Kampala marathon than Kololo Airstrip. So spacious is the latter, you could be tempted to think that half of the registered 19,058 participants turned up for the annual event on Sunday. Parking space was adequate, some of the 200 registered corporate teams found where to fit their hospitality tents and spectators, too, could ...
Following Sunday's MTN Kampala marathon, Uganda Athletics Federation (UAF) officials should be worried by Tanzania's performance.
THE Police Anti Terrorism Unit will be on guard against terrorism threats at the MTN Kampala International marathon on Sunday.
CAPTAIN of the Nigerian team in the maiden edition of Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) International Cycling Tour, Aphis Bakare is confident that he and his teammates have what it take to shine at the 324 kilometres championship which takes them from Lagos to Benin Republic, then to Togo and ends in Ghana.
THERE is no doubt that the MTN Kampala Marathon is destined to be one of Africa's leading sports events and is bigger and more exciting than before. As athletics chief Dan Tamwesigire said, the event is also clear testimony of how corporate responsibility is essential for the development and growth of communities.
Former Ex-calibur and Bodybuilding champion in America Robert Ssebugwawo will launch his fitness campaign for sportsmen on Thursday at Sheraton Hotel. "Our athletes physiques leave a lot to be desired.
Barely a week after undergoing an intensive basic technical course in athletics, games masters and mistresses in Akwa Ibom state, will this weekend put their acquired knowledge to the test when they line out their wards for the zonal finals of the Mobil sponsored Akwa Ibom state schools athletics championship holding Thursday and Friday November 19 and 20 2009
NEW Athletics Star (NAS) coach has urged the athletics federation (RAF) to allow clubs compete independently in next month's Rendezvous National.
THE Frank Fredericks Foundation (FFF) once again announced several scholarships worth thousands of dollars and brand-new sports equipment to athletes and schools in Namibia.
By 6.00 am, Kololo was a sea of yellow as thousands eager to race jostled for prime positions.
UGANDAN athletes are ready to retain the MTN Kampala Marathon title, but the biggest competition will be in the 10km races, where former World champion medallists Moses Kipsiro and Dorcus Inzikuru are expected to fight for titles. But it will not be that easy in the star studded line ups.
Former World and Olympic champion in the women's 5000m and IAAF Athlete of the year in 2007,Ethiopia's Meseret Defar and president of World Mountain Running Association (WMRA), Bruno Gozzelino arrived Nigeria Tuesday evening for this weekend's fifth Obudu international mountain race and the first African mountain running championships.
WORLD Mountain running champion Geoffrey Kusuro will lead Uganda's assault on the lucrative Obudu Mountain running championship in Nigeria where the winner will walk off with $50,000 (sh93m).
