{"id":26491,"date":"2022-09-28T11:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:48:39","slug":"athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools","title":{"rendered":"Athletics body start talent detection in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) has kick-started a talent detection exercise to discover new talented youngsters who can put Rwanda on the map in the world of Athletics.<\/p>\n

While Rwandans have over the years struggled to impress at international athletics competitions, the federation, led by president Lt. Col (Rtd) Lemuel Kayumba, believes their new talent search could help them produce new athletes with potential to win medals on the global stage.<\/p>\n

The initiative seeks to operate and develop athletics in Rwanda thus attracting and sustaining the potential of future sporting stars.<\/p>\n

\u201cRwanda\u2019s got talent in athletics and we are here to help these young athletes grow their talent and equip them with enough package with which they can compete for medals against the best in the world,\u201d said Kayumba.<\/p>\n

During the 2022 inter-school competitions organised by Rwanda School Sports Federation in June, the federation selected 44 talented young athletes,19 boys and 15 girls, from track and field disciplines (running, throwing and jumping) and organised a 10-day training camp for them where they met coaches to help them strengthen competitive capacity in their respective disciplines.<\/p>\n

However, 10 of them weren\u2019t able to participate as they were representing Rwanda at the just-concluded 2022 FEASSSA games held in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

The performance of the athletes impressed Kayumba who hinted that a number of them could start representing the country at international athletics competitions in the near future.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir performance has significantly improved and we have already identified some athletes who will represent the country in future competitions,\u201d Kayumba said.<\/p>\n

However some athletes\u2019 progression might be hampered due to the fact that their schools don\u2019t have facilities that are favorable for them to keep training while they also lack competitions to keep their level of performance on a stable balance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have facilities and this only gets us out of form while at school. We need more competitions so we can perform and improve if we are to shine at international athletics tournaments,\u201d said Benata Nyiraneza, one of the young athletes who attended the camp.<\/p>\n

To maintain the level of performance of the athletes, the federation will keep an eye on each of them at their respective schools while the plan to bring them together at one or two schools of excellence is work in progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to follow them up at their respective schools and determine whether the schools have the facilities that are favorable for their disciplines in order to help them continue training at school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the future, especially during holidays, the federation is planning to organise more intakes that will reach more young talents in schools countrywide.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Rwanda<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. The Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) has kick-started a talent detection exercise to discover new talented youngsters who can put Rwanda on the map in the world of Athletics. While Rwandans have over the years struggled to impress at international athletics competitions, the federation, led by president Lt. Col (Rtd) Lemuel Kayumba, believes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-26491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"\nAthletics body start talent detection in schools - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) has kick-started a talent detection exercise to discover new talented youngsters w ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Athletics body start talent detection in schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) has kick-started a talent detection exercise to discover new talented youngsters w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-28T11:39:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-28T11:48:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Athletics body start talent detection in schools\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-28T11:39:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-28T11:48:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools\"},\"wordCount\":459,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools\",\"name\":\"Athletics body start talent detection in schools - Rwanda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-28T11:39:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-28T11:48:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) has kick-started a talent detection exercise to discover new talented youngsters w ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":700,\"caption\":\"Athletics body start talent detection in schools\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Athletics body start talent detection in schools\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\",\"name\":\"Rwanda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Athletics body start talent detection in schools - Rwanda","description":"The Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) has kick-started a talent detection exercise to discover new talented youngsters w ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Athletics body start talent detection in schools","og_description":"The Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) has kick-started a talent detection exercise to discover new talented youngsters w ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools","og_site_name":"Rwanda","article_published_time":"2022-09-28T11:39:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-28T11:48:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":700,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Athletics body start talent detection in schools","datePublished":"2022-09-28T11:39:02+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-28T11:48:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools"},"wordCount":459,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Rwanda","Rwanda"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools","name":"Athletics body start talent detection in schools - Rwanda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg","datePublished":"2022-09-28T11:39:02+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-28T11:48:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Rwanda Athletics Federation (RAF) has kick-started a talent detection exercise to discover new talented youngsters w ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_13-6334347bb0ca1.jpg","width":1200,"height":700,"caption":"Athletics body start talent detection in schools"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/athletics-body-start-talent-detection-in-schools#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Athletics body start talent detection in schools"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/","name":"Rwanda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}