{"id":49458,"date":"2021-07-30T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T06:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=49458"},"modified":"2021-07-30T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:34:46","slug":"ugandas-nakaayi-and-nanyondo-qualify-for-8000m-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ugandas-nakaayi-and-nanyondo-qualify-for-8000m-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s Nakaayi and Nanyondo qualify for 800m semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY Ritah Kemigisa<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Uganda’s Halima Nakaayi and Winnie Nanyondo have qualified for the women’s 800m semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nanyondo<\/span> completed 2nd in heat one in 2:02.02, barely a second behind race winner Renelle Lamote of France.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nakaayi finished fourth in fast-paced Heat 2 in 2:00.92.<\/span><\/p>\n

The semi finals are scheduled for Saturday, July 31 starting at 2:50pm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Albert Chemutai fell short of progression to the final of the men’s 3000 steeplechase after finishing 9th posting 8:29.81 in heat one of the race.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still looking at the Olympics, in Rowing Kathleen Noble came in second after posting 8:07.00 in Final E of the women’s single scull event.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has finished 26th overall and the 2nd best African In Rowing in the Tokyo 2020 olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY Ritah Kemigisa Uganda’s Halima Nakaayi and Winnie Nanyondo have qualified for the women’s 800m semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics. Nanyondo completed 2nd in heat one in 2:02.02, barely a second behind race winner Renelle Lamote of France. Nakaayi finished fourth in fast-paced Heat 2 in 2:00.92. The semi finals are scheduled for Saturday, July 31 starting at 2:50pm. Meanwhile, Albert Chemutai fell short of progression to the final of the men’s 3000 steeplechase after finishing 9th posting 8:29.81 in heat one of the race. Still looking at the Olympics, in Rowing Kathleen Noble came in second after posting 8:07.00 in Final E of the women’s single scull event. She has finished 26th overall and the 2nd best African In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49459,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49458"}],"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=49458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}