VIDEOS: The pre-event press conference of the Kampala 2017 World Cross Country Championships and tweets below.
PREVIEW: Cheptegei Ugandan to watch
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Saturday, 25 March 2017
All set for IAAF World Cross Country Athletics Championships 2017
VIDEOS: The pre-event press conference of the Kampala 2017 World Cross Country Championships and tweets below.
PREVIEW: Cheptegei Ugandan to watch
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Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Uganda ready as final entry lists for World Cross Country #IAAFKampala2017 released
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| Cheptegei wins the world juniors. He will be Uganda's man to watch |
The two nations’ record in the team event is even more intimidating – won all from 1986 to 2015. The story is increasingly similar in the women and junior events, with the Kenyans and Ethiopians dominating the past decade.
The story could however change on Sunday when Uganda hosts the 42nd IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017.
Uganda has come close to taking the individual men’s gold once before through Moses Kipsiro in 2009 and will not get a better chance to take charge than this year at their own Kololo Independence Grounds on March 26.
“We have a selected a very strong team. We we want to challenge the dominant sides…we will give them a run for their money,” promised Uganda athletics chief Domenic Otucet.
There are many reasons why the Ugandans are confident. Three of them are Joshua Cheptegei, Stephen Kiprotich and Timothy Toroitich.
Kiprotich
Stephen Kiprotich has in the last five years shown the Kenyans and Ethiopians can be beaten at their own game. This he did in the marathon at the 2012 Olympic and 2013 world champions, all preceded by a sixth place showing at the 2011 World Cross championships in Spain.
At Uganda’s trials for this year’s event, he showed he can still match the change of pace from the marathon to the cross country, by finishing 5th.
Toroitich
All the stars, fresh from IAAF Cross Country Permit series November 2016 to February 2017, will travel to Kampala with a familiar name to look out for – Timothy Toroitich.
Before breaking off the circuit in November to prepare for Kampala 2017, Toroitich had swept to victory in the second leg race of the 2016-17 IAAF Cross Country Permit series.
Two weeks earlier, Toroitich finished second in the opening race of the winter’s IAAF Cross Country Permit series behind Bahrain’s Aweke Ayalew.
Toroitich finished fifth in the world cross country championships in 2013, and was eighth in the 10,000m at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015.
Joshua Cheptegei
Joshua Cheptegei destroyed a strong field to win the senior men’s gold at the National Cross Country Championships in Kampala in January to show he will be the man to watch on Sunday.
Defending champion Phillip Kipyeko set the early pace at the Kampala trials, but when Cheptegei took charge in the second of five laps at Kololo, the battle for everyone else remained for second place.
Cheptegei is the 2014 world U20 10,000m champion and 2015 African junior cross-country gold medalist.
The 20-year-old doubled at last year’s Olympic Games, finishing an impressive sixth in the 10,000m and eighth in the 5000m on his debut, and will clearly be favourite to dethrone the Kenyans and Ethiopians.
He has what it takes to make a glorious debut in the seniors, having finished 11th at his first cross country event, the junior men's event in 2015.
The Prize Money at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships will be as follows:
Senior Races:
Individual
1st $30,000
2nd $15,000
3rd $10,000
4th $7,000
5th $5,000
6th $3,000
Team
1st $20,000
2nd $16,000
3rd $12,000
4th $10,000
5th $8,000
6th $4,000
Relay:
1st $12,000
2nd $ 8,000
3rd $6,000
4th $4,000
.@iaaforg Teachinal Teams with final installations at Kololo earlier today. #Seiko #iaafkampala2017 pic.twitter.com/VaA358EDJt— Josh Wama (@JoshWama) March 23, 2017
Here is the IAAF World Cross Country championships 2017 final entry lists. The Ugandan capital Kampala this week hosts 557 runners from 59 countries and one refugee team.
Friday, 3 March 2017
#AfricaFutures: What will Africa eat?
Ugandan media heavyweights Charles Onyango Obbo and Robert Kabushenga engage regional experts in a tweetathon on 'Africa, today, tomorrow and the years to come'.
"It is said, to build a better future, Africa will have to drive its own development agenda. ... demographics and development: which will shape Africa's future the most?"
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
LIVE: ACME talk with BBC's Nancy Kacungira
What is African Journalism? The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) holds its first #ACMETalk this year with BBC's Nancy Kacungira.
Topic: African Journalism in the digital age
I think Africa was the first victim of fake news. The whole truth about the continent was never told - @kacungira #ACMEtalk— Mark Keith Muhumuza (@mumakeith) February 28, 2017
***You can rise above what people think of you but you can't rise above what you think of yourself. ~ @kacungira #ACMETalk— Virtuous Woman (@ameliamartha1) February 28, 2017
Factually wrong +ve narratives about Africa are even more dangerous than factually wrong -ve ones. E.g: A 'growing middle class' #ACMEtalk— Bernard Sabiti (@BernardSabiti) February 28, 2017
Friday, 30 December 2016
Where and what time New Year 2017 is celebrated around the World
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| Where and what time New Year 2017 is celebrated around the World. |
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With 39 different local times in use, it takes 26 hours for the New Year to encompass all time zones. Find out in which order they enter 2017 and which countries are first and last.
Above is a chronological list of when the world's different countries arrive at midnight on New Year's Eve and enter 1 January 2017
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