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Sarah Nazziwa collected silver at the 2024 Uganda Para Badminton International tournament at the Lugogo Indoor Arena on Sunday afternoon.
The Uganda Para Badminton Wheel chair 1 star Nazziwa was one of the five who collected the fancied medals from the 7-day tournament.
Despite falling to Brazil’s Juscileia De Carvalho Silva 2-1 in a three set game, Sarah Nazziwa, it didn’t stop the Ugandan from collecting a medal.
Coming into the tournament as underdogs depending on conditions that most of them cited as unfavorable at the start, the attempt has been termed as a successful one.
In an interview with Nazziwa after the game, she cited transport In Uganda as one of her challenges;
“Transport has not been easy but am glad I found a way to manage it.” She said
Nazziwa was moving on a boda boda to come for tournament for the last six days till she reached the final.
Talking about reaching the final, she came out to say that ;
“This achievement is huge for me, my Country and Coaches. What has mainly helped me is training because having been going to different tournaments so the consistency was bound to be there”
“For my opponents, before I play any of them I make lots of research about them and get to know how they play but as you know the more you advance the harder the opponent”
“As I collect 2028 Olympic points, Previously have been ranked 14th but I expect to be around the top Ten(10) individuals when the results return.” she concluded
The other medalists for Uganda collected bronze and these included; Sumin Mutesi (Standing Upper 5), Rose Nansereko( Singles standing Lower 3), Flavia Basuuta (Wheel chair 1) and Brian Mugabe + Ali Mukasa (Wheel chair 1&2) who played in the doubles.
All podium winners;
Uganda Para Badminton Tournament
Men’s Singles Standing Lower 4
Final
Abhijeet Sakhuja Vs Surya Kant Yadav 2-0 (21-13, 21-17) (all Indian final)
Podium
1. Abhijeet Sakhuja
2. Surya Kant Yadav
3. Harshit Choudhury (India)
3. Deep Ranjan Bisoyee
Men’s singles Standing Upper 5
Final
Jatin Azad (India) Vs Ibrahim Aliyev (Azebeijan) 2-0 (21-14,21-16)
Podium
1. Jatin Azad
2. Ibrahim Aliyev
3. Karan Paneer (India)
3. Vikram Singh (India)
Men’s Singles Standing Lower 3
Final
Kartik Suhag Vs Vijendra (all Indians) 2-0 (21-17,21-17)
Podium
1. Kartik Suhag
2. Vijendra
3. Dinesh Rajaiah (India)
3. Balakeshavulu Jonnalagadd Adinarayana ( India)
Women’s Singles Standing Lower 3
Final
Neeraj (India) Vs Maria Guadalupe Rojas Perez (Mexico) 2-0 (21-11,21-14)
Podium
1. Neeraj
2. Maria Guadalupe Rojas Parez
3. Rose Nansereko (Uganda)
3. Amudha Saravanan (India)
Women’s Singles Standing Upper 5
Final
Arati Janoba Patil Vs Latika Latika (all Indians) 2-0 (21-16,21-15)
Podium
1. Arati Janoba Patil
2. Latika Katika
3. Swati Swati (India)
3. Sumin Mutesi (Uganda)
Women’s Singles Wheel Chair 1
Final
Juscileia De Carvalho Silva (Brazil) vs Sarah Nazziwa (Uganda) 2-1 (18-21,21-3,21-7)
Podium
1. Juscileia De Cavalho Silva
2. Sarah Nazziwa
3. Flavia Basuuta (Uganda)
3. Anusha Chidananda (India)
Men’s Singles Wheel Chair 1
Final
Konstantin Afinogenov (Israel) Vs Marcelo Alves Conceicao (Brazil) 2-0(21-19,24-22)
Podium
1. Konstantin Afinogenov
2. Marcelo Alves Conceicao
3. Poorna Rao Chapara (India)
3. Kantharajanak Ravinaik (India)
Women’s Singles Wheel Chair 2
Played on round robin
Podium
1. Ruchi Trivedi
2. Shana Shabana
3. Mary Nakhumicha Zakayo(Nigeria)
3. Elizabeth Atieno Ogonji (Nigeria)
Men’s Singles Wheel Chair 2
Final
Munna Khalid (India) Vs Julio Cesar Godoy (Brazil) 2-1 (14-21,21-19,21-18)
Podium
1. Munna Khalid
2. Julio Cesar Godoy
3. Nurul Hussein Khan (India)
3. Ali Mukasa (Uganda)
S-SH 6 Final
Sudarshan Saravanakumar Muthusamy Vs Nithin Thazhe (All India) 2-0 (21-10,21-6)
Podium
1. Sudarshan Saravanakumar Muthusamy
2. Nithin Thazhe
3. Latatai Parmeshwar Umrekar
3. Suresh Kumar Bokolia (India)
