Kenyans trail Ugandans in athletics at East Africa games

Samuel Imeta and Meshack Babu after winning East Africa schools athletics championships. [Elizabeth Mburugu]

Samuel Imeta, Michael Kibet and Catherine Reline struck gold for Kenya as the athletics championships at the 2018 Brookside East Africa Secondary School games kicked off at Ubworoherane Stadium yesterday.

But Kenyans, who are known to run the shows in global athletics, were outclassed by Ugandans who won nine gold, six silver and four bronze medals to the charts with 19 medals.