By Zaki Hassan
Active fitness club won the 2024 International Taekwondo heroes cup beating Prisons Taekwondo club by far.
The Kitgum based club collected a hooping 482 points out of the tournament held at in Kansanga settings up over 300 points gap off runners up.
The club which won the same event last year’s reached the milestone by 34 gold, 20 Silva and 14 bronze at junior and senior competition.
After outshining all teams at the event AFC head coach Robinson Okello pointed out the factors that raised his team above others “we started our preparations early for this even, we have many players some are in schools so we have been working together with school to fix some times for training”
Uganda prison who only represented at senior even managed to collect 143 which are totaling 10 gold, 10 Silva, 6 bronze.
Tororo Taekwondo club finished third with 60pts getting compiled from 6 Gold, 2 Silva While Sharing 28 pts 2 gold, 1 Silva and 1 bronze and UCU Mbale finished fifth with a 2 Silva medals and bronze.
The competition had more four teams that pulled 0 in terms of medals.
The event were used to observe on players that are expected to represent Uganda at East Africa championship that is set to take place in late August.
The International Taekwondo Federation president In Uganda David Owori confirmed on the spot of the players “it has been an outstanding two days event which had 9 teams and AFC has proved too strong, besides it helped us to observe around 30 players which we expect to take to Zanzibar for East Africa nations championship, Uganda will compete with 6 teams after that there will be a World cup in Argentina but Uganda we will stop at East Africa due to finances”
