{"id":16912,"date":"2021-09-02T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=16912"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T13:17:42","slug":"oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m","title":{"rendered":"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>This is Peace Oroma\u2019s preferred race \u2013 the 400m T13. Her coach James Ssenkungu thinks she\u2019s better suited for it than the 100m she ran on Tuesday, failing to progress from her heat.<\/p>\n

Oroma, a visually impaired athlete, returns to the National Stadium today hoping to extend her participation in the quadrennial Games.<\/p>\n

Para-swimmer Husnah Kukandakwe, 14, impressed but didn\u2019t make it further. Then, David Emong won bronze in the 1500m T46 race. That was his second medal after silver at the Rio 2016 Games. Yesterday, para-badminton player Ritah Asiimwe was no match for China\u2019s Quixia Yang, the second seed in the SU5 category.<\/p>\n

On her debut, Asiimwe, 35, 2-0 in the best-of-three group C round one match. Yang won 21-2 and 21-6. The silver lining lies in the journey the one-handed Asimwe has walked thus far. \u201cI needed a voice, freedom, entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has found that ahead of her final two games this week. Now, if Oroma were to make it beyond her heat, it would be more than a triumph against adversity. \u201cYou can tell, this (the 400m) is her race,\u201d her coach Ssenkungu says, confidently.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you see how she started the 100m? You realise that by the time she warmed up, the race was done,\u201d he offers his analysis. Most of it is true and Oroma, who was way-off in the first 70m in a race she clocked 13.17 seconds, knows it. \u201cGoing forward, I want to concentrate on the 400m. It suits me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Her best time is one minute and 4.46 seconds. America\u2019s Erin Kerkhoff, with a time of 58.23 seconds is the fastest in heat one as per the records.<\/p>\n

The 25-year old, running at the Paralympics for the first time, must run a Personal Best (PB) to earn a glance of going further.<\/p>\n

[email protected]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. This is Peace Oroma\u2019s preferred race \u2013 the 400m T13. Her coach James Ssenkungu thinks she\u2019s better suited for it than the 100m she ran on Tuesday, failing to progress from her heat. Oroma, a visually impaired athlete, returns to the National Stadium today hoping to extend her participation in the quadrennial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-16912","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-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"\nOroma: Time for flying finish in 200m - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is Peace Oroma\u2019s preferred race \u2013 the 400m T13. Her coach James Ssenkungu thinks she\u2019s better suited for it than th ...\" \/>\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\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is Peace Oroma\u2019s preferred race \u2013 the 400m T13. Her coach James Ssenkungu thinks she\u2019s better suited for it than th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-02T13:40:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\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\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-02T13:40:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m\"},\"wordCount\":312,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m\",\"name\":\"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m - Uganda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-02T13:40:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"This is Peace Oroma\u2019s preferred race \u2013 the 400m T13. Her coach James Ssenkungu thinks she\u2019s better suited for it than th ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":480,\"caption\":\"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/\",\"name\":\"Uganda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?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\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m - Uganda","description":"This is Peace Oroma\u2019s preferred race \u2013 the 400m T13. Her coach James Ssenkungu thinks she\u2019s better suited for it than th ...","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\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m","og_description":"This is Peace Oroma\u2019s preferred race \u2013 the 400m T13. Her coach James Ssenkungu thinks she\u2019s better suited for it than th ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m","og_site_name":"Uganda","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-09-02T13:40:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.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\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m","datePublished":"2021-09-02T13:40:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m"},"wordCount":312,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Uganda","uganda"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m","name":"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m - Uganda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg","datePublished":"2021-09-02T13:40:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"This is Peace Oroma\u2019s preferred race \u2013 the 400m T13. Her coach James Ssenkungu thinks she\u2019s better suited for it than th ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6130cee09c9ff.jpg","width":720,"height":480,"caption":"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/oroma-time-for-flying-finish-in-200m#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Oroma: Time for flying finish in 200m"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/","name":"Uganda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?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\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}