The countdown to the 2026 Commonwealth Games is almost over, and Team Uganda is getting ready for an action-packed ten-day marketing campaign that guarantees intense competitors, medal alternatives and unforgettable sporting moments throughout Glasgow, Scotland.
Competition formally begins on 24 July, a day after the Games opening ceremony, with Uganda represented in 3×3 basketball, boxing, para powerlifting, swimming and para swimming earlier than the nation’s athletics stars enter the fray three days later.
The Games conclude on 2 August, when Uganda’s closing opponents in judo, netball and observe biking will wrap up the nation’s marketing campaign.
The opening weekend is predicted to be notably busy. On 24 July, Uganda’s girls’s 3×3 basketball workforce begins its pool marketing campaign towards Jamaica earlier than taking over the Cayman Islands and regional rivals Kenya later the identical day. The workforce returns to motion on 26 July towards Fiji and Australia, with hopes of progressing to the knockout rounds and medal matches scheduled for 28 and 29 July.
The Uganda She Cranes start their Commonwealth Games marketing campaign on 25 July with a difficult fixture towards Wales earlier than going through Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, New Zealand and hosts Scotland in the course of the preliminary stage. Depending on their closing pool standing, Uganda might advance to the classification matches, semi-finals and in the end the medal matches scheduled for the ultimate weekend of the Games.
Swimming will present Uganda with one among its busiest schedules in the course of the first half of the Games. National file holders and rising stars together with Gloria Muzito, Kirabo Namutebi, Tendo Kaumi, Tendo Mukalazi, Jordan Ssamula, Jesse Ssengonzi and Tara Naluwoza will compete throughout a number of particular person and relay occasions from 24 to 29 July. Relay groups have additionally been entered within the males’s and combined freestyle and medley occasions, giving Uganda a number of extra alternatives to problem for finals.
Uganda’s para-athletes additionally start early. Janet Nakayobyo, Rebecca Zawedde and Dennis Mbaziira will contest the para powerlifting finals on the opening day of competitors, whereas swimmers Husnah Kukundakwe and Condoleeza NyamisangaNakazibwe will compete of their respective para swimming occasions on 27 and 29 July.
Attention will then shift to the athletics programme starting on 27 July, the place Uganda’s strongest medal hopes are anticipated to emerge. Olympic champion Peruth Chemutai headlines the ladies’s 3,000-metre steeplechase, whereas skilled middle-distance runner Halimah Nakaayi returns within the 800 metres.
Uganda’s formidable distance operating squad options Oscar Chelimo, Dan Kibet, Harbert Kibet, Kenneth Kiprop, Esther Chebet, Rebecca Chelangat and Joy Cheptoyek, all of whom will compete within the 5,000m and 10,000m occasions. Sprinters Mauren Akiiki Banura, Shida Leni, Haron Adoli and Kenneth Omuka will contest the 400 metres individually earlier than becoming a member of forces within the combined 4x400m relay. Field occasion specialist David Otim will symbolize Uganda within the males’s lengthy soar, whereas Knight Aciru, Silas Chemutai and Domenic Krop tackle the newly launched one-mile occasion.
Uganda’s boxers can even be aiming for podium finishes all through the Games. Angel Katushabe, Emily Nakalema, Nuhu Batte, Ibrahim Kemis, Alfred Ojok and Aziz Abdul start their campaigns between 24 and 29 July, with development by the rounds doubtlessly carrying them into the medal bouts on 1 August.
In weightlifting, Davis Niyoyita will compete within the males’s 60kg closing on 26 July, whereas judokas Zubeda Talikaza and Charles Mwangushya will enter competitors in the course of the closing weekend on 1 and a pair of August respectively.
Uganda’s biking problem will likely be led by Charles Kagimu, who will contest the boys’s 4,000-metre particular person pursuit on 31 July earlier than returning for the boys’s 1,000-metre time trial on the ultimate day of competitors.
According to Team Uganda’s grasp competitors calendar, the busiest days are anticipated to be between 26 and 31 July, when as many as 5 completely different sports activities will likely be in motion concurrently. Those six days might in the end outline Uganda’s medal tally as athletes compete throughout swimming, athletics, boxing, netball, weightlifting and biking.
