By the end of the week, in STECOL building located at Masoro were held the Table Tennis games hosted by the Chinese Ambassadors Cup 2022, where Mbabazi Samuel a 14 years old kid surprised a lot of people by winning the trophy for the adult category
The games started Saturday on 23rd July and was
ended on Sunday, 170 players attended the competition from 4 different
countries which are; Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Kenya
There were many different categories like men, women, old
women, under 18 in boys and girls, the ones who usually played in (veterans),
disabled people (Para-Table Tennis) and kids under 12.
Ugandans kicked butts at the game where they won the golden
medal except from the category of disabled people where the winner was a
Rwandan in the women category and for men it was a Burundian man called Badru
For the under 18 category the winner was Napooki Philippe
beat Musyoki Boniface they both come from Uganda and the third place was for
Asifiwe Patience
Girls under 18 years the winner was Shanita from Uganda as
Uganda had the whole game in control where she was playing against Kelia and
Uwikunda Rosine was in third place
To the adult category the winner got 100.00FRW, the one in 2nd
place got 80.000FRW, for those under 18, who used to play (Veterans) and those
with disability, the one in 1st place got 80.000FRW and in 2nd
place got 60.000FRW and for those under 12, the one in 1st place got
40.000FRW and in 2nd place 30.000FRW
Birungi Johnson who is the leader of this competition told
the media how the competition went on so good as it’s the first time inviting foreigners
to the competition and how its leveling up
Sir Birungi said on behalf of RTTF excitement that Rwandans
won so many silver medal which is a great sign that we are getting to a level
of competing with other countries