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The accolades just keep flowing for Joshua Cheptegei following his exploits at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
And despite his obvious disappointment at failing to win the 10000m gold in Tokyo, it turns out his efforts were still good enough for an award back home.
That came in the shape of the Nile Special Uganda Sports Press Association (Uspa) sports personality of the month of July following their quarterly meeting held at Imperial Royale on Monday morning.
Cheptegei beat off competition from fellow runner Jacob Kiplimo, who won a bronze medal in the same race, and the national basketball team Silverbacks that defeated Morocco 77-65 on July 8 to qualify for the FIBA Afrobasket Championship.
Both Cheptegei and Kiplimo tied on 135 points and following the association’s constitution, president Patrick Kanyomozi used his deciding vote to hand the double Olympic medalist the win.
The association also picked winners from April, May and June.
Kiplimo, who won gold in 10000m at Ostrava Golden Spike Championship in Czech Republic, will take the May award after edging Betway Kobs.
The Betway-sponsored rugby side received 135 votes, 10 less than Kiplimo but was commended following a stellar league campaign in which they finished unbeaten in the league for a first title since 2016.
The crew of Duncan Mubiru and Musa Nsubuga will meanwhile have the April accolade having won the third round of the National Rally Championship held in Sembabule.
The crew of Jas Mangat and Joseph Kamya were the only nominees for the month of June and will walk away with the award in recognition of the victory in the fourth round of the NRC held in Kasanda.
The winners will receive their awards Thursday this week in a scientific function.
Nile Special Sports personalities for April, May, June and July.
April- Duncan Mubiru/Musa Nsubuga
May- Jacob Kiplimo
June- Jas Mangat / Joseph Kamya
July- Joshua Cheptegei
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