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Rwanda brought 6 Gold and 5 Silver medals from Great Lakes Open Athletics Championship in Nairobi/Kenya

For the first time, Great Lakes Region Hosted a qualifying competition to the 2010 IPC Athletics World Championship. Rwanda benefited much from this competition by qualifying 4 athletes to the World Championship in Christchurch/New Zealand.

Here below are the final results from the competition.

NAMES	SPORT EVENTS	RESULTS	MEDALS	QUALIFIED YES/NO
MUVUNYI Hermas	100m	11.41	GOLD	NO
NDAYISENGA J.Claude	100m	11.71	SILVER	NO
AKOBASINGIZA Olive	100m	14.83	GOLD	NO
MUKANDAYISENGA Alphonsine	100m	16.83	SILVER	NO
NDAYISENGA J.Claude	200m	23.79	GOLD	NO
AKOBASINGIZA Olive	200m	31.04	GOLD	NO
MUKANDAYISENGA Alphonsine	200m	37.15	SILVER	NO
MUVUNYI Hermas	400m	51.09	GOLD	YES
NDAYISENGA J.Claude	400m	52.96	SIVER	NO
AKOBASINGIZA Olive	400m	70.55	GOLD	YES
MUVUNYI Hermas	800m	2:02.24	SILVER	NO
NKUNDABERA Jean de Dieu	800m	2:07.01	-	NO
NKUNDABERA Jean de Dieu	1500m	4:24.90	-	NO
NSENGIMANA Leopold	1500m	4:44.59	-	NO
NSENGIMANA Theoneste	5.000m	15:18.08	-	YES
NSENGIMANA Leopold	5.000m	15:38.07	-	YES
NSENGIMANA Theoneste	10.000m	33:26.01	-	-

In general Rwanda has 3 athletes qualified for World Championship with MINIMA (B) and 1 (a woman) with MINIMA (A).They arrived in Kigali on Friday, 27th August, 2010 at 2:30am

Click here for more information about qualification criterias to the World Championship.

By Celestin NZEYIMANA
NPC Rwanda

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