Hosts Uganda clinch two medals at the Uganda International Badminton Series

Meble Namakoye and Oliva Nakajja secured bronze for Team Uganda in the Uganda International Badmintion series held at Lugogo Indoor stadium on Sunday afternoon.

This came pass after losing their Women singles semi final tie to the Indian Rawat sisters (Gayatri Rawat and Mansa Rawat) who later went on to clinch Gold after winning the final over UAE’s Nidhi Desai and Sreeyutha Sreejith Parol.

Despite the fact that many Ugandan players made it the quarter finals, they did not pass the test to go further with many citing difference in shuttle nature compared what they were training with;

“We have been training using nylon shuttles but this time round we had to adapt to feather shuttles” one of the bronze medalist Olivia Nakajja said

Adding that:” We are going to ask our coaches to help us with the feather kind of shuttles so we can get used to them and compete with these people from all around the globe”

“However on the positive note, this is my first international medal and looking forward I hope to do better in the upcoming City Tyres tournament slated for 17th October”

Winners

All sponsors and winners. | Photo Credit: Innocent Mutaawe

Mixed Doubles

1. Ashraf Daniel Md Zakaria+ Lim Xuan(Badminton Association of MALAYSIA)
2. Andy Yew Tung Kok+Loh Zhi Wei (Badminton Association of MALAYSIA)
3. Bokka Navaneeth+Ritika Thaker (Badminton Association of INDIA)
   Mohit Jaglan+-Lakshita Jaglan (Badminton Association of INDIA)

Women Doubles 

1. Gayatri Rawat+Mansa Rawat (Badminton Association of INDIA)
2.  Nidhi Desai+Sreeyuktha Sreejith Parol (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)
3. Olivia Nakajja+Meble Namakoye (UGANDA Badminton Association)
   3. Aminath Nabeeha Abdul Razzaq+ Fathimath Nabat (Badminton Association of MALDIVES)

Men’s Doubles

1. Nithin H.V. + Venkata Harsha Vardhan Ra Veeramr (Badminton Association of INDIA)
2. Abinash Mohanty+Ayush Pattanayak (Badminton Association of INDIA)
3. Agil Gabilov+Dicky Dwi Pangestu (AZERBAIJAN Badminton Federation)
   3. Vaibhav B.S, + Kavin Thangam Kavin (Badminton Association of INDIA)

Women singles

1. Loh Zhi Wei (Badminton Association of MALAYSIA)
2. Shreya Lele (Badminton Association of INDIA)
3. Farza Nazrin (Badminton Association of INDIA)

3. Era Maftuha (AZERBAIJAN Badminton Federation)

Men’s Singles 

1.B.M.Rahul Bharadwaj (Badminton Association of INDIA)

2.Manraj Singh (Badminton Association of INDIA)
3.Aditya Gupta (Badminton Association of INDIA)
3. Naren Shankar Iyer (Badminton Association of INDIA)