Uganda at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Uganda at the
2018 Commonwealth Games
Uganda at the; 2018 Commonwealth Games
	Flag of Uganda
CGF code	UGA
CGA	Uganda Olympic Committee
Website	nocuganda.com
in Gold Coast, Australia; 4 April 2018 – 15 April 2018
Competitors	69 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Peace Proscovia (opening)
Medals; Ranked 15th	Gold 3 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 6
Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)
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Uganda competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia from April 4 to April 15, 2018.^[1]

Netball player Peace Proscovia was the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.^[2]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei	Athletics	Men's 5000m	April 8
Gold	Stella Chesang	Athletics	Women's 10000m	April 9
Gold	Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei	Athletics	Men's 10000 m	April 13
Silver	Munyo Mutai	Athletics	Men's marathon	April 15
Bronze	Mercyline Chelangat	Athletics	Women's 10000m	April 9
Bronze	Juma Miiro	Boxing	Men's −49 kg	April 14

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	13	10	23
Badminton	2	2	4
Boxing	5	0	5
Cycling	2	0	2
Netball	0	12	12
Rugby sevens	12	0	12
Shooting	0	1	1
Squash	2	0	2
Swimming	1	1	2
Table tennis	1	1	2
Weightlifting	3	1	4
Total	41	28	69

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Pius Adome	100 m	10.70	5	Did not advance
Pius Adome	200 m	21.39	4	Did not advance
Alli Ngaimoko	400 m	50.35	7	Did not advance
Leonard Opiny	400 m	47.32	4	Did not advance
Ronald Musagala	1500 m	3:48.62	6	—	Did not advance
Thomas Ayeko	5000 m	—	13:54.78	4
Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei		—	13:50.83
Phillip Kipyego		—	13:59.59	6
Joshua Kiprui Cheptegei	10000 m	—	27:19.62
Jacob Kiplimo		—	27:30.25	4
Timothy Toroitich		—	27:47.35	7
Albert Chemutai	3000 m steeplechase	—	8:19.89	5
Robert Chemonges	Marathon	—	Did not finish
Alex Chesakit		—	2:23:06	7
Munyo Solomon Mutai		—	2:19:02

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Scovia Ayikoru	100 m	11.86	4 q	11.99	8	Did not advance
Scovia Ayikoru	400 m	54.65	7	Did not advance
Emily Nanziri		54.10	4 Q	54.10	6	Did not advance
Leni Shida		52.79	4 Q	54.50	8	Did not advance
Docus Ajok	800 m	2:00.53	4 q	—	2:01.22	6
Halima Nakaayi		2:01.69	5	—	Did not advance
Winnie Nanyondo		2:00.69	2 Q	—	2:00.36	4
Winnie Nanyondo	1500 m	4:08.49	2 Q	—	4:06.05	10
Juliet Chekwel	5000 m	—	15:30.17	4
Mercyline Chelangat	5000 m	—	15:50.01	11
Juliet Chekwel	10000 m	—	31:57.97	7
Mercyline Chelangat		—	31:48.41
Stella Chesang		—	31:45.30
Scovia Ayikoru Halima Nakaayi Emily Nanziri Leni Shida	4 × 400 m	—	3:35.03	8

Field events

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Rank
Josephine Lalam	Javelin throw	48.92	8

Badminton

Uganda participated with four athletes (two men and two women)

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Edwin Ekiring	Men's singles	Coetzer (RSA) W 2 - 0	Ouseph (ENG) L 0 - 2	Did not advance
Brian Kasirye	Men's singles	Clark (FAI) W 2 - 0	Bonkowsky (TTO) W 2 - 1	Lee (MAS) L 0 - 2	Did not advance
Bridget Bangi	Women's singles	Bye	Yeo (SGP) L W/O	Did not advance
Aisha Nakiyemba	Women's singles	Bye	Wynter (JAM) L 0 - 2	Did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Edwin Ekiring Brian Kasirye	Men's doubles	—	Bignell / Hutchings (JER) L 0 - 2	Did not advance
Bridget Bangi Aisha Nakiyemba	Women's doubles	—	Allet / Chan-Lam (MRI) L W/O	Did not advance
Bridget Bangi Edwin Ekiring	Mixed doubles	Dias / Hendahewa (SRI) L 0 - 2	Did not advance
Aisha Nakiyemba Brian Kasirye	Mixed doubles	Molia / Gibson (FIJ) L 1 - 2	Did not advance

Mixed team

Roster

Pool C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	MF	MA	MD	GF	GA	GD	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	15	0	+15	30	0	+30	630	345	+285	3	Knockout stage
2	Australia	3	2	1	9	6	+3	19	12	+7	576	472	+104	2	Knockout stage
3	South Africa	3	1	2	3	12	−9	6	24	−18	410	592	−182	1
4	Uganda	3	0	3	3	12	−9	6	25	−19	406	613	−207	0

Updated to match(es) played on 6 April 2018. Source: GC2018

England
5

Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre, Gold Coast
5 April

Uganda
0

		1	2
1	Chris Adcock / Gabby Adcock Brian Kasirye / Aisha Nakiyemba	21 5	21 9
2	Rajiv Ouseph Edwin Ekiring	21 11	21 15
3	Chloe Birch Shamim Bangi	21 12	21 10
4	Chris Langridge / Marcus Ellis Brian Kasirye / Edwin Ekiring	21 9	21 5
5	Jessica Pugh / Chloe Birch Aisha Nakiyemba / Shamim Bangi	21 12	21 12

Australia
4

Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre, Gold Coast
6 April

Uganda
1

		1	2	3
1	Ross Smith / Leanne Choo Brian Kasirye / Aisha Nakiyemba	21 13	21 15
2	Anthony Joe Edwin Ekiring	21 23	21 19	10 21
3	Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu Shamim Bangi	21 5	21 12
4	Robin Middleton / Ross Smith Edwin Ekiring / Brian Kasirye	21 12	21 6
5	Leanne Choo / Renuga Veeran Shamim Bangi / Aisha Nakiyemba	21 7	21 5

South Africa
3

Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre, Gold Coast
6 April

Uganda
2

		1	2
1	Prakash Vijayanath / Michelle Butler-Emmett Brian Kasirye / Aisha Nakiyemba	21 16	21 15
2	Bongani von Bodenstein Edwin Ekiring	13 21	11 21
3	Johanita Scholtz Shamim Bangi	13 21	20 22
4	Prakash Vijayanath / Cameron Coetzer Edwin Ekiring / Brian Kasirye	21 16	21 16
5	Michelle Butler-Emmett / Elsie de Villiers Aisha Nakiyemba / Shamim Bangi	21 10	21 10

Boxing

Uganda participated with a team of 5 athletes (5 men).

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Juma Miiro	−49 kg	—	Bye	Shaffi Hassan (KEN) W 3 - 2	Amit Panghal (IND) L 0 - 5	Did not advance
Bashir Nasir	−56 kg	—	Zweli Dlamini (SWZ) L 1 - 4	Did not advance
Kavuma Ssemujju	−64 kg	Luke McCormack (ENG) L 0−5	Did not advance
Musa Bwogi	−69 kg	bye	Merven Clair (MRI) W 3 - 2	Pat McCormack (ENG) L 0 - 5	Did not advance
Regarn Simbwa	−81 kg	—	Lukmon Lawal (NGR) W 4 - 1	Sammy Lee (WAL) L 1 - 3	Did not advance

Cycling

Uganda participated with 2 athletes (2 men).

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Charles Kagimu	Road race	3:57:58	20
Charles Kagimu	Time trial	55:38.87	32
Viena Ssekanga	Road race	DNF

Netball

Uganda qualified a netball team by virtue of being ranked in the top 11 (excluding the host nation, Australia) of the INF World Rankings on July 1, 2017. The country will be making its Commonwealth Games debut in the sport.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Roster

The following is the Uganda roster in the netball tournament of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.^[6]^[7]

Uganda national netball team – 2018 Commonwealth Games roster

Players

Coaches

Name	Age - DOB	Ht.	Club
Ajio, Lilian	-	–	Prisons
Kizza, Betty	-	–	NIC
Meme, Ruth	-	–
Nakabuye, Hadijah	-	–	Prisons
Nakachwa, Halima	-	–	Prisons
Nampungu, Joan	-	–	NIC
Namuwaya, Muhayimina	-	–
Nanyonga, Florence	-	–	Prisons
Nanyonga, Racheal	-	–	NIC
Nanfuka, Stella	-	–	Prisons
Oyella, Stella	-	–	Prisons
Proscovia, Peace (C)	-	–	Loughborough Lightning

Head coach

Imelda Nyongesa
Rashid Mubiru

Legend

(C) Team captain
Club field describes current pro club

Injured

Pool B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	5	5	0	342	202	+140	10	Semi-finals
2	New Zealand	5	3	2	292	235	+57	6	Semi-finals
3	Uganda	5	3	2	287	248	+39	6	Classification matches
4	Malawi	5	3	2	277	284	−7	6
5	Scotland	5	1	4	195	289	−94	2
6	Wales	5	0	5	215	350	−135	0

Updated to match(es) played on 11 April 2018. Source: GC2018

5 April 2018 18:30 v t e	Report	New Zealand	64–51	Uganda		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Helen George Kate Stephenson Reserve umpire: Gary Burgess
		Folau 22/22 (100%) Ekenasio 19/26 (73%) Selby-Rickit 13/14 (93%) Mes 10/17 (59%)		Proscovia 37/42 (88%) Nanyonga 14/16 (88%)

7 April 2018 13:00 v t e	Report	Uganda	54–52	Malawi		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Joshua Bowring Gary Burgess Reserve umpire: Jono Bredin
		Proscovia 35/38 (92%) Nanyonga 19/21 (90%)		Kumwenda 43/47 (91%) Chimaliro 8/10 (80%) Simtow 1/1 (100%)

8 April 2018 15:00 v t e	Report	England	55–49	Uganda		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Michelle Phippard Marc Henning Reserve umpire: Helen George
		Housby 30/34 (88%) Harten 11/11 (100%) Corbin 7/10 (70%) Haythornthwaite 7/7 (100%)		Proscovia 23/26 (88%) Nanyonga 22/27 (81%) Nakabuye 4/4 (100%)

10 April 2018 20:30 v t e	Report	Wales	40–76	Uganda		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Marc Henning Joshua Bowring Reserve umpire: Angela Armstrong-Lush
		Lewis 34/42 (81%) Rowe 6/7 (86%) Llewelyn 0/1 (0%)		Proscovia 56/63 (89%) Nanyonga 20/24 (83%)

11 April 2018 16:00 v t e	Report	Uganda	57–37	Scotland		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Helen George Angela Armstrong-Lush Reserve umpire: Theresa Prince
		Proscovia 32/34 (94%) Nanyonga 25/30 (83%)		Gallagher 19/21 (90%) Goodwin 16/25 (64%) McCall 2/8 (25%)

Fifth place match

12 April 2018 09:00 v t e	Report	South Africa	53–42	Uganda		Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Umpires: Jackie Mizon Joshua Bowring Reserve umpire: Marc Henning
		Venter 42/46 (91%) Holtzhausen 11/12 (92%)		Oyella 22/25 (88%) Proscovia 19/19 (100%) Nanyonga 1/4 (25%)

Rugby sevens

Men's tournament

Uganda qualified a men's rugby sevens team of 12 athletes, by winning the 2017 Africa Cup Sevens.^[8]

Roster

Pool D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fiji	3	3	0	138	22	+116	9	Semi-finals
2	Wales	3	2	1	90	38	+52	7	Classification semi-finals
3	Uganda	3	1	2	38	95	−57	5
4	Sri Lanka	3	0	3	27	138	−111	3

Source: GC2018
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head result; 3) Point difference; 4) Points scored.

14 April 2018
10:59

Wales	31–5	Uganda
Try: Jenkins 1' m Morgan 3' m Williams 8' c Treharne 9' c Amos 14' c Con: O'Brien (1/3) 9' Davies (2/2) 10', 14'	(Gold Coast 2018)	Try: Odongo 11' m Con: Wokorach (0/1)

Robina Stadium, Gold Coast
Referee: Richard Haughton (England)

14 April 2018
17:53

Fiji	54–0	Uganda
Try: Tuwai 1' c Sau 2' c Mocenacagi 4' c Ravouvou 6' m Nasilasila 10' c Nasoko 12' c Vakurinabili 13' c Dranisinukula 14' c Con: Ravouvou (3/4) 1', 2', 4' Nasilasila (3/3) 10', 14', 14' Naduva (1/1) 12'	(Gold Coast 2018)

Robina Stadium, Gold Coast
Referee: Damon Murphy (Australia)

14 April 2018
21:11

Uganda	33–10	Sri Lanka
Try: Kisiga 1' m Wokorach 4' c Odongo 8' c Kasito 9' c Ogena 11' c Con: Wokorach (4/5) 4', 8', 10', 11'	(Gold Coast 2018)	Try: Wijekoon (2) 1' m, 7' m Con: Ratwatte (0/2)

Robina Stadium, Gold Coast
Referee: Richard Haughton (England)

Shooting

Uganda participated with 1 athlete (1 woman).

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Cleopatra Mungoma	Women's 50 metre rifle prone	571.9	20

Squash