{"id":49393,"date":"2021-07-27T14:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=49393"},"modified":"2021-07-27T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:35:16","slug":"2020-olympics-ugandas-ambala-finishes-7th-in-100m-freestyle-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/2020-olympics-ugandas-ambala-finishes-7th-in-100m-freestyle-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Olympics: Uganda’s Ambala finishes 7th in 100m freestyle heat"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Makhtum Muziransa<\/strong><\/section>\n

Ugandan swimmer Atuhaire Ogola Ambala finished seventh in third of nine heats in the competitive 100m freestyle event held July 27\u00a0at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Japan.<\/p>\n

The swimmer stayed with the crowd- posting a 25.44 split after the first 50m but slightly lost ground to finish the event with a time of 54.23 seconds.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ambala\u2019s pride will be hurt a bit as he was beaten by the heat\u2019s winner and Kenyan entrant Rosafio Danilo (52.54). Burundi\u2019s Belly-Cresus Ganira came eighth with 54.33.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Ugandan\u2019s personal best and entry time was the impressive 53.89 national record he made at the World Championships in Gwangju \u2013 South Korea in 2019 to earn a universality slot in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

But a lot has changed since as the world was hit by Covid-19 \u2013 a disease Ambala also had to battle three weeks to today\u2019s race \u2013 thereby disrupting his training and build-up competitions to the Olympics.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/sports\/other-sport\/2020-olympics-uganda-s-ambala-finishes-7th-in-100m-freestyle-heat-3488340<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Makhtum Muziransa Ugandan swimmer Atuhaire Ogola Ambala finished seventh in third of nine heats in the competitive 100m freestyle event held July 27\u00a0at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Japan. The swimmer stayed with the crowd- posting a 25.44 split after the first 50m but slightly lost ground to finish the event with a time of 54.23 seconds. \u00a0Ambala\u2019s pride will be hurt a bit as he was beaten by the heat\u2019s winner and Kenyan entrant Rosafio Danilo (52.54). Burundi\u2019s Belly-Cresus Ganira came eighth with 54.33. \u00a0The Ugandan\u2019s personal best and entry time was the impressive 53.89 national record he made at the World Championships in Gwangju \u2013 South Korea in 2019 to earn a universality slot in Tokyo. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[390],"class_list":["post-49393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}