ANOCA School Games 2025: Team Uganda Continues To Impress in Swimming, Table Tennis

By: Kayiira Jackson 

Team Uganda continues to impress in the ongoing inaugural ANOCA School Games taking place in four cities of Algeria, North Africa. 

For starters, Uganda took competitors in eight different sports disciplines which include; Swimming, badminton, beach volleyball, basketball 3×3, table tennis, tennis, Football and athletics.

On day three, the attention caught two sports disciplines, swimming and table tennis where Uganda wholesomely impressed.

Joshua Mandre and captain Paula Nabukeera were the pick of Uganda’s performances in the first session of swimming at the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) School Games in Annaba, Algeria.

Sixteen year old Mandre completed his 50m butterfly race in the boys’ category in 29.30 seconds to finish 9th.

Nabukeera was also 9th in the girls’ 50m freestyle finishing in 30.32 seconds.

Abigail Mwagale was 11th with a time of 31.92 seconds.

Emaad Kodet Tumusiime was 11th in the 100m backstroke with a time of one minute, 13 seconds, and four microseconds (1:13.04). Here, Mandre was behind Tumusiime with a time of 1:15.89.

Mandre and Nabukeera are on the reserve list for the 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle finals this evening.

In table tennis, Luwooza Imran from Seroma Christian High School currently tops group 2 after winning his second Match against Sychelles 3:0 (11:8, 11:9, 11:3) and this adds on his display yesterday where he beat the hosts’ representative with a commanding 3-0 victory. Imran Luwooza had a resounding 11-09, 11-07 and 11-08 set wins over Algerian opposition Abdelhine Merouane in the opener.

With two wins from two group stage matches, Luwooza qualifies directly to the quarterfinals, where he will face the winner between Cameroon and Ghana, who are set to clash in the round of 16.