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Overview:
The 2023 East Africa Regional Senior Table Tennis Championships is a precursor to the 2023 African Senior Championships, the World Table Tennis Championships, the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2024 All Africa Games.
- Event: 2023 East Africa Regional Senior Table Tennis Championship
- Dates: 9th – 12th March
- Host Country: Djibouti
Teenagers Parvin Nangonzi and Jemimah Nakawala, two of the four players to represent Uganda at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, United Kingdom, have returned to national duty.
The duo are part of the six-man squad that will represent Uganda at the 2023 East Africa Regional Senior Table Tennis Championships in Djibouti.
Nangonzi and Nakawala are both students at Mbogo High School.
The boys team includes Benjamin Achuma (Ndejje University), Samuel Ankunda Mbabazi (Kibuli SS) and Mbogo College’s Imran Luwooza.
Unfortunately, the team traveled without a head coach due to financial difficulties.
They left Entebbe International Airport on Wednesday the 8thth In March 2023 with Ethiopian Airlines in two different installments.
The boys left at 04:25, followed by the girls at 11:55.
The team will face Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
The championship is a precursor to the 2023 African Senior Championships, the World Table Tennis Championships, the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2024 All Africa Games.
God willing, we will bring back a good medal to our country. The team is very good. It was chosen with a fair and transparent round robin system, where 11 men and 11 women of the Table Tennis Super League played each other last Sunday. We are very grateful to the National Council of Sports (NCS) and the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) for their assistance to this team. And we are very happy to have colleagues in these bodies who understand enough to empathize with the players and understand the plight of these very dedicated Ugandan national team players who sacrifice so much for our country. We are pretty sure that the players will have good focus and concentration for the Djibouti games.
Robert Jjagwe, President, Uganda Table Tennis Association (UTTA).
The team events started on Thursday 9 March 2023 and will end the following day.
The singles game starts on Saturday the 11thth March and culmination on Sunday the 12thth March.
Team composition:
Girls:
- Jemimah Nakawala (Kibuli SSS)
- Bunch of Nangonzi (Kibuli SSS)
- Shanitah Namaala (Mbogo High School)
Boys:
- Benjamin Achuma (Ndejje University)
- Samuel Ankunda Mbabazi (Kibuli SSS)
- Imran Luwooza (Mbogo College)
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