Uganda is competing in athletics, archery, basketball 3x3, cycling, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting, para swimming, judo, shooting and wrestling. A total of 45 athletes are representing Uganda in the various sports disciplines at the games.
Kukundakwe bags 6 medals, Chebet 2 in Turkey
Uganda has bagged a total of 8 medals so far in the ongoing 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey.
Kukundakwe and Chebet have so far bagged 8 medals in Turkey
The Games, originally scheduled for July 2020 suffered a number of setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kukundakwe competes in freestyle, butterfly and backstroke; SB8 (breaststroke) and SM9 (Individual Medley) which were reviewed at the World Para Swimming World Series 2019 in Singapore.
In Turkey, Kukundakwe has bagged 6 medals; 2 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze and budding long-distance athlete Abel Chebet has claimed 1 silver and bronze in men’s 10,000m and 5,000m respectively.
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Kukundakwe won the 400m Freestyle S9 event in the ongoing Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) Games in Konya, Turkey on day one of the events and has now added a 200m IM Gold medal.
She won the 200m individual medley posting 3.17.24 minutes, added a silver in 50m freestyle. She went for gold in 100m breast stroke and settled for silver in 400m freestyle. At the Commonwealth Games, Kukundakwe represented Uganda in only a single event and came short of the medal bracket.
Considered a star for the future, Abel Chebet posted 13:54.93 in the 5,000m finals to settle for bronze.
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The medals have hoisted Uganda to the eight position on the 8th position in Turkey.
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