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Uganda’s Kathleen Noble officially retired from the game of rowing and returned the oars to shore, with a National record at the 2024 Paris OlympicGames on Friday 2nd August
Noble bowed out with a 7:56.10 Record time of the women’s 2000m single sculls taking 2nd place in Repechage Final E.
Kathleen Noble in her final race.
This meant that Noble finished 26th overall, matching her impressive performance from the Tokyo Olympics.
This marks a fitting finale to her rowing career, as she previously announced her retirement from the sport.
Before reaching this final stage, Kathleen Noble finished fifth (5th) in Heat 1 of this year’s opening Women’s Single Sculls event before clinching 3rd in the intial repechage.
The 29 year old started her Olympic journey in 2020 before retiring Four years later. Noble’s maiden rowing championship for Uganda was during the 2016 World Rowing U-23 event held in Rotterdam, Holland.
Noble is said once have taken a semester off to train with the Ugandan team was recruited and trained under William Mwanga with the Maroons Aqua Sports Club, where she learned how to row in a single boat.
She qualified for the 2020 Olympics after winning the 2 km single scull race at the 2019 Africa Rowing Regatta held in Tunisia.
Going on forward before this 2024 Paris, Noble first competed in Morocco where she finished fourth to qualify for the Olympics.
Uganda’s first Olympic rowing participant, as well as the African nation’s first and only White Olympian across any sporting discipline, Noble also had a couple challenges in her journey.
The biggest of them all has been equipment most especially the rowing boats, something she tried to solve on her own but taxes were not favorable.
Being being a rower, Noble was both a swimmer and a volleyball player.
