Athletics team depart for Rio Olympics
By: GEOFFREY ASIIMWE
PUBLISHED: August 08, 2016
Rwandas female duo of Claudette Mukasakindi and Salome Nyirarukundo will
today jet off to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at 2pm aboard KLM airways ahead of
their campaigns in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
The duo will travel with their trainer Innocent Rwabuhihi and Rwanda
Athletics Federation (RAF) president Jean Paul Munyandamutsa.
Mukasakindi will represent the country in the womens full marathon on
Sunday, August 14 at 2:30pm while Nyirarukundo will compete in the womens
10,000m scheduled for this Friday at 4:10pm at the Olympic Stadium.
The 33-year-old Mukasakindi will be making her second appearance at the
worlds biggest quadrennial sporting event after making her maiden
appearance four years ago in London, finishing 101st with a time of 2:51:07.
Speaking to Times Sport on Saturday, Mukasakindi, fresh from a three-month
training camp in Iten, Kenya revealed that, with more experience under her
belt, she is determined to make amends this time round.
I feel confident because I have had excellent preparations, physically, I
am pretty fit and I hope to challenge for better positions than I did four
years ago in London, said Mukasakindi.
The APR athletics club runner also competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow, Scotland and finished 11th in the womens 10,000m.
Meanwhile, Nyirarukundo fresh from competing at this years IAAF World U-20
championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, will be making her Olympics debut.
The 19-year-old qualified during this years 20th edition of Africa
Athletics Senior Championships that took place in June in Durban, South
Africa.
The Olympic Games started on August 5 and will end on August 21. Rwanda has
fielded a total of seven athletes, among them, two cyclists, two swimmers
and three runners.
@@@Les athlètes Rwandais quittent Kigali deux jours après les cérémonies
d'ouverture des Jeux Olympiques de Rio! En regardant les athlètes Burundais
défiler à Rio dans leurs costumes traditionnels, je me demandais où était la
délégation Rwandaise. Le Rwanda avait-t-il une délégation dans les
cérémonies d'ouverture?
EM
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