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Uganda Police and Prisons athletes took the day in the 200m category at the National Athletics Trials at Namboole Stadium as the son of politician Robert Kyagulanyi, Solomon Kampala, failed to make the cut to the national team.
Uganda Police and Prisons athletes took the day in the 200m category at the National Athletics Trials at Namboole Stadium as the son of politician Robert Kyagulanyi, Solomon Kampala, failed to make the cut to the national team.
The national trials are a precursor event to various continental and global competitions where athletes face off to meet the standard qualification requirements to make the national team.
The biggest reward for senior athletes is the dream ticket to the prestigious World Athletics Championships slated for August in Budapest, Hungary.
However, in the 200m distance, none of the athletes hit the qualification mark for the 2023 Worlds.
World Athletics set a more demanding qualification standard, adjusting the time from 20.24 for the 2022 Worlds to 20.16 for the 2023 Worlds.
Uganda Police athlete Allan Ngobi posted 21.08, followed by Adoli Haron of Uganda Prisons, who registered 21.16, and Jagalo Joshua of Uganda Police who posted 21.85 to earn their positions in the national team.
Kampala posted a distant 24.72, settling for the third position.
Prior to the national trials, Kampala participated in the Max Omeda Memorial Athletics Championships in Soroti last month where he finished fourth in the 200m race.
At the same event, his team was third in the 4x100m relay, winning bronze.
He recently scooped a bronze medal in the same distance at the Ultimate Race Nights in Dubai.
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Elsewhere, US-based sprinter Tarsis Orogot, the first Ugandan to compete at the Worlds in the 200m since Davis Kamoga in 1997, could again be the sole Ugandan sprinter in Hungary after he posted 19.60 at the Tom Jones Invitational on Friday.
He improved his personal best and set a new national record for the distance, making him the 11th fastest man in history in 200m race.
Orogot finished 13th overall last year at the World Athletics Championships, Oregon falling short in the semi-finals clocking 20.35.
He previously held the national record of 20.20 set in February 2023.
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