{"id":436509,"date":"2011-06-06T05:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T05:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/06\/uganda-athletes-to-remember-fallen-hero-akii-bua\/"},"modified":"2011-06-06T05:10:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T05:10:18","slug":"uganda-athletes-to-remember-fallen-hero-akii-bua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/uganda-athletes-to-remember-fallen-hero-akii-bua\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Athletes to Remember Fallen Hero Akii-Bua"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"18.4803180915\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/monitor180.jpg\" alt=\"The Monitor (Kampala)\" title=\"Visit The Monitor (Kampala)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abdu Wasike<\/p>\n<p>5 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nearly forty years after the late John Akii-Bua (RIP) won Uganda&#8217;s only Olympic gold to late, his legacy is still celebrated like the victory lap he took in Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Today, athletes converge at Namboole to compete in the 13th edition of the Akii-Bua Memorial Track and Field Athletics Championships involving 15 events.<\/p>\n<p>This also coincides with the Eastern Africa Senior Championships where a national team of 10 runners travelled to Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>This means female sprinters Emilly Nanziri, Justine Bayiga, Agnes Aneno and Halima Nakaayi will miss the annual event. Male sprinters Demus Praise, Geoffrey Akena, Waiswa Lukungu, Inya Lazarus and Ben Siwa also made the trip down south where Uganda will also field two relay teams.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106060120.html\" title=\"Uganda: Athletes to Remember Fallen Hero Akii-Bua\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uganda: Athletes to Remember Fallen Hero Akii-Bua<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Abdu Wasike 5 June 2011 Nearly forty years after the late John Akii-Bua (RIP) won Uganda&#8217;s only Olympic gold to late, his legacy is still celebrated like the victory lap he took in Munich, Germany. Today, athletes converge at Namboole to compete in the 13th edition of the Akii-Bua Memorial Track and Field Athletics Championships involving 15 events. This also coincides with the Eastern Africa Senior Championships where a national team of 10 runners travelled to Tanzania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uganda: Athletes to Remember Fallen Hero Akii-Bua - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/uganda-athletes-to-remember-fallen-hero-akii-bua\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Uganda: Athletes to Remember Fallen Hero Akii-Bua - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Abdu Wasike 5 June 2011 Nearly forty years after the late John Akii-Bua (RIP) won Uganda&#039;s only Olympic gold to late, his legacy is still celebrated like the victory lap he took in Munich, Germany. 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