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Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee has launched a campaign aimed at helping local authorities acquire environmental education to deal with global warming, air pollution and many other ills that ruin the environment.

The campaign is an initiative of the International Olympic (IOC) through the Olympic Solidarity.

It started on October 10 but was officially launched on Thursday at Centre des Jeunes Olympafrica de Nyanza in Nyanza District, Southern Province, targeting over 260 people including 100 community leaders (50 men and 50 women) as well as sports administrators.

The second group will include 40 primary school teachers and 20 sports instructors, while the third group will comprise 100 secondary school students, who will be trained starting on October 30 until November 2.

The campaign will be carried out through education workshop sessions specifically educating them on how to protect the environment, improving water management, electricity consumption, and waste management.

In total 260 individuals will be trained.

RNOSC says the initiative aims to bring the public closer to nature through sports and also to raise awareness that sports and sports facilities can adversely affect the environment.

According to Felicite Rwemarika, RNOSC’s first vice president, sportsmen and women should embrace environmental protection as it is always hard for them to do their sports activities effectively without better environment.

“We decided to focus on training local leaders first because they interact with residents on a daily basis, and the next it will be school teachers because they reach pupils they teach and then we will train the youth, who are the strength and future of the country,” Rwemarika said.

She noted that the campaign is aimed at sensitising the communities about environmental issues through workshops conducted by environment experts.

Rwemarika further revealed that the initiative will be rolled out in other parts of the country after assessing its success in the pilot district of Nyanza.

“Forests are reducing and the culture of people to plant trees has reduced, we are encouraging them to understand the role of environmental protection as it is the pillar of sustainable development,” he said.

Source: The New Times

Saturday: Final
City Oilers 86-59 Patriots

Rwanda’s Patriots Basketball Club will have to wait another year for an attempt at winning the FIBA-Africa Zone V Club Championships.

Uganda’s City Oilers successfully defended the title after beating Patriots 86-59 in the final of this year’s tournament at Lugogo Indoor Arena in Kampala on Saturday evening.

However, Patriots’ head coach Henry Mwinuka has promised to comeback stronger next year.

“Obviously we are very disappointed but I hope next year, we will do better and go a step further. The competition is getting tougher every other year, next year we need to put in more effort,” Mwinuka said after Saturday’s defeat.

The Tanzanian trainer admitted that, “The game was hard for sure. My guys were tired. Most of our shots were off all night. We tried our best but failed.”

“Last year, we lost in the semi-finals and this year we reached the final and if you look around, we did our best to win but City Oilers are a very good team,” he explained.

City Oilers point-guard, Jordin Mayers was the star of the game, putting up 21 points while Adarius Pegues hit 14 points and 13 rebounds. Mayes was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP).

From the start, City Oilers showed that they were determined to defend their title when they went 8-0 in the lead but Patriots too showed that they were not ready to go down easily and ended the first quarter 22-20 down.

Amidst cheers from the home crowd, the defending champions scored 26 points and restricted their opponents to 18 points in the second quarter to take a 10 point lead at the break; 48-38.

Patriots looked to be clueless with everything going wrong for their side as star players Kami Kabange and Hamza Ruhezamihigo continued to fire blanks and eventually trailed by 18 points going into the last 10 minutes.

In the last quarter, the Oilers slowed the game’s tempo as Patriots looked helpless allowing the opponents to score 17 points before sealing off an 86-59 victory. Patriots’ Aristide Mugabe and Elie Kaje collected 17 and 11 points respectively.

City Oilers will once again represent the Zone V at the 2017 FIBA-Africa Club Championships.

In the semi-finals, City Oilers held off KPA 73-65, while Patriots beat the other Ugandan side Betway Power with Kabange and Walter Nkurunziza leading the way with 17 points each.

Two Patriots players, Mugabe and Kabange were named on the team of the tournament—others were; Mayes (Oilers), Stanley Ocitti (Oilers) and Betway Power’s Mike Makiadi.

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) also retained the women’s title after winning all their 6 games of the competition.

Equity (Kenya) finished second while home favourites Uganda Christian University (UCU) finished third. Rwanda’s APR finished in the 5th position ahead of Don Bosco of Tanzania and Horseed of Somalia.

Source: The New Times Rwanda.

Saturday
AS Kigali 4-0 ES Mutunda

AS Kigali Women Football Club head coach Shaban Mbarushimana has praised his players after winning a record-extending 9th women’ league title on Saturday.

Mbarushimana’s team defeated ES Mutunda 4-0 in the final game of the season played at Kigali Stadium in Nyamirambo, to crown off the campaign with an unbeaten record.

Striker Calixte Iradukunda scored a hat-trick while Florence Imanizabayo netted the fourth goal as the City of Kigali-sponsored side registered a 14th successive league match.

“I am very happy for sure. My players deserve credit because they have done exceptionally well throughout the season. They gave everything to win the league and here we’re champions with unbeaten record,” Mbarushimana said after Saturday’s victory.

He added that, “It is something special for us as new coaches, we came in to win and we did it in the first season, hopefully, we will keep the winning spirit next season.”

Mbarushimana replaced long-serving Grace Nyinawumuntu, who was sacked in March having led the club to eight consecutive league titles.

The game was initially supposed to be played last month before being postponed as both teams’ players’ engagement in the regional inter-schools games, which were staged in Uganda.

AS Kigali won all their 14 matches, scoring 82 goals and conceding only four goals, while ES Mutunda finished in second place with 29 points from 9 wins, two draws and three losses.

Iradukunda finished the season as top scorer with 22 goals.

Kamonyi finished in third spot with 27 points; Rambura in fourth slot with 22 points; Inyemera fifth with 17 points; Bugesera sixth with 13 points, while Gakenke and Nyagatare were 7th and 8th with six and four points respectively.

Source: The New Times Rwanda.

Sunday
20km de Paris: Top five
1. Collins Chebi (Ken) 00:58’:28”
2. Josphat Kiprono Menjo (Ken) 00:58’:34”
3. Florian Carvalho (Fran) 00:58’:40”
4. Felicien Muhitira (Rwa) 00:58’:43”
5. Elvis Tarabach (Ken) 00:58’:43”

Rwanda’s Felicien Muhitira missed out a podium finish by just three seconds after finishing 4th in this year’s 39th edition of the 20 Kilomètres de Paris (Paris 20 km) that took place in the French capital, Paris on Sunday.

Twenty-two-year old Muhitira, who was making his debut appearance at the annual event finished in 58 minutes and 43 seconds, 15 seconds behind the race winner, Collins Chebi of Kenya (00:58’:28”).

The Rwandan runner was beaten to the bronze medal by Frenchman Florian Carvalho, who posted 58 minutes and 40 seconds while Kenyan Josphat Kiprono Menjo scooped the silver medal.

The annual race, which holds IAAF Bronze Label Road Race status and is always, held in October since 1979, takes place on the streets of French capital, Paris, attracting top international athletes from around the world.

Muhitira competed in the race just six days after winning the 98th edition of Sedan-Charleville race in record breaking time that had stood for 54 years, set by Norman Ameur, who had posted 1:11:08 in 1963.

A week before last week’s triumph, Muhitira, who races for Italian team Potenza Picenza, finished fifth in the Le Lion Semi Marathon International after clocking 1 hour, one minute and 56 seconds to set a new personal best.

Dieudonne Disi, now retired, remains the only Rwandan athlete to have won this race when he claimed it in 2009 after posting 59 minutes and 33 seconds.

Muhitira now turns focus on his final race in France, the Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale half marathon scheduled for October 23.

Source: The New Times Rwanda.

Rwandan Taekwondo Family continued to show their mastery of the sport against their regional rivals by dominating the 2017 Taekwondo Ambassador’s Cup that concluded at Amahoro Indoor Stadium on Sunday 24th September 2017.

The two-day event that started on Saturday 23rd September 2017, attracted eight regional countries namely; Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, DR Congo, Somalia, Uganda, South Sudan and hosts Rwanda.

Rwanda finished top of the National Team table ahead of Uganda and Kenya, who took silver and bronze medals respectively, while in the club classification, local side Dream Taekwondo Club from Gating – Rwanda, took the trophy followed by Team Uganda and IYF Taekwondo Club from Kimironko – Rwanda.

Dream Taekwondo Club won gold medals through Eric Byukusenge, Geoffrey Gatali (Men’s junior category), Nadege Murerwa (women’s junior category), Beatrice Akimana (-62kgs category), Aline Ndacyayisenga (women’s heavyweight) and Denise Uwase (-44kgs). Mussa Twizeyimana (feather weight) and Raisa Umurerwa (-U53kgs) were the other gold medal winners for Dream Club.

Stephen Odhiambo from Kenya Kibabii University Taekwondo Club won gold in the men’s bantamweight, while his compatriot Jenita Masa, also from Kibbakii University Club, won the heavyweight female gold.

Benin Kayitare from IYF Taekwondo Club was named the MVP of the senior men’s category and Uganda’s Amina Namutosi, who claimed gold in the -46kgs category, was named MVP in the senior women’s competition.

Rwanda Taekwondo Federation Emeritus President, Martin Knooce, thanked the sponsors and participating teams from different countries for taking part in this year’s championship. Meanwhile Ambassador of the republic of Korea promise Minipsoc and Rwanda Taekwondo Federation a good partnership in the upcoming years in order to support and participate in the growth of Taekwondo in Rwanda.

Minispoc Permanent Secretary Mr  Ntigengwa John congratulates all the participant who grace the Tourney and make it Successfully. Mr Ntigengwa also appreciate all the support from Embassy of the Republic of Korea and promise them a good partnership.

What a final day at the 2017 ParaVolley Africa Sitting Volleyball Championships!

After months of preparation, days of travel, and days of competition, today, the champions were crowned.   Hosts Rwanda were up against Egypt in both GOLD medal matches – quite a feat for both nations!  However, the results were different ones at the end of the day…

In the final match of the competition, Egypt was victorious over Rwanda, 3-0, to the disappointment of all the Rwandan fans.  It was a tough match against the 2016 Paralympic Games Bronze medalists, but Rwanda put forth a great effort – Egypt just proved too strong.

The women’s final told a different story than the men’s.  The Rwandan women were unstoppable in their quest to repeat as ParaVolley Africa Champions.  They accomplished their goal in fine style, winning 3-0 (25-14, 25-20, 25-11) over Egypt.

The Bronze medal matches saw Morocco defeat Algeria 3-0 in the men’s competition, and Kenya defeat the Democratic Republic of the Congo 3-0.

It was a great tournament, well run by the hosts ParaVolley Rwanda and the National Paralympic Committee of Rwanda.  Congratulations to all athletes on their wonderful performances!

Today

Men

South Africa vs Kenya : 12:00 am

Algeria vs DR Congo: 02:00 pm

Rwanda vs Morocco : 06:00 pm

Women 

DR Congo vs Egypt : 10:00 am

Rwanda vs Kenya : 04:00 am

Rwanda Women Sitting Volleyball national team have qualified for World Sitting volleyball Championship following their 3-0 sets (25-13, 25-11, 25-16) to win their second match in a row on Thursday afternoon at Petit Stade, Remera.

With the experience of team captain MUKOBWANKAWE Lilian aged 30, Rwanda have led the match no4 to win three straight sets.
Team head coach Jean Marie Nsengiyumva said, he is happy with the performance his players as Egypt is considered as one of the strongest opponent in this tournament.
“Beating Egypt with a convincing victory of 3-0, proves we are progressing well in sitting volleyball in Africa as well making our country proud on international platform, Nsengiyumva added.”

African Champions captain MUKOBWANKAWE Lilian revealed, the players were determined to win this tie as they already knew how strong Egypt team was and that is why this mentality helped them to perform on high level.

Rwanda team captain
Top performers on both sides
On the side of Rwanda
No 4 NYIRAMBARUSHIMANA Sandrine: 5 Services – 2 Reception – 4 Rettings – Spikes – 6 Block – 8 Defenses
No 16 IMANISHIMWE Yvonne: 6 services – 1 reception – 4 Settings – 2 Blocks – 2 Defenses

On the side of Egypt
No 12 KHALIL Esraa: 12 Services – 2 Attacks – 1 Pass – 2 Defenses

No 10 MOKHLES Raha: 3 Services – 3 Receptions

Rwanda and Kenya have qualified for World championship to be held in Netherlands in July 2018, before both face each other this Friday in the last match of the group stage.

Last match for both teams
Rwanda 3-0 DR Congo
Rwanda 3-0 Egypt

Kenya 3-2 Egypt
Kenya 3-0 DR Congo

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Komite Olempike y’u Rwanda ibabajwe n’urupfu rutunguranye rw’uwari umunyezamu wa Rayon Sports F.C., Mutuyimana Evariste witabye Imana muri iki gitondo.

Dimension Data For Qhubeka (South-Africa) and Tirol Cycling Team (Austria) have joined Team Illuminate (USA),Bike Aid (Germany),Dukla Banska Bystrica (Slovakia) and Interpro Cycling Academy (Japan) in starting the event that will again feature a prologue and seven stages from November 12 to 19, 2017.

Rwanda will once again be represented by a trio of teams including the National selection and two clubs.

17 teams of five riders will be on the start line for the Prologue in Kigali on Sunday November 12 for seven days of exciting racing at most prestigious cycling competition in Africa.

The full list of teams to race at the 2017 Tour du Rwanda :

3 Rwandan teams:

1. National Team of RWANDA
2. Club BENEDICTION of RUBAVU
3. Club LES AMIS SPORTIFS of RWAMAGANA

5 African National Teams:

1. MAURITIUS National Team
2. National ETHIOPIA team
3. National Team of ERITREA
4. National team of MOROCCO
5. National team of ALGERIA

6 UCI Continental teams:

1. DIMENSION DATA FOR QHUBEKA (South-Africa)
2. TIROL CYCLING TEAM (Austria)
3. TEAM ILLUMINATE (USA)
4. BIKE AID (Germany)
5. DUKLA BANSKA BYSTRICA (Slovakia)
6. INTERPRO CYCLING ACADEMY (Japan)

3 Regional or Club teams:

1. Team LOWESTRATES.COM (Canada)
2. Team HAUTE-SAVOIE / AUVERGNE RHÔNE-ALPES (France)
3. Team KENYA RIDERS SAFARICOM (Kenya)

Source: http://www.tourdurwanda.rw