University games Bamenda 2017
Day 2 action of play
Bamenda-SIC/UDs 23/04/17. The University of Dschang athletics squad entered the competition today in the following categories, 100m series both men and women (finals), 400m series both men and women (finals), 1500m both men and women (finals), long jump women (finals), Discus throw men(finals) and short put women(finals). For the female 100m series, UDs lined up EDJANGMOUA MBELLA VANESSA and MAFFO LAURE. MAFFO was eliminated at the first phase of the competition while EDJANGMOUA qualified for the finals and ended up at the 3rd position earning a bronze medal. The only male for this same race who was AYUK TAKUSON was eliminated at the first phase. For the 400m female race, UDs lined up TSOBZE VIANY RUSKINE AND DJIMMO SOREL CLAUDIANE while the male category had VOUFO ARNAULD DUMAS and both men and women of this category were all eliminated at the first stage of the competition. In the 1500m race for ladies, UDs lined up BELTA NTEMGOUA CHOMOH and MAGANKAM DIANA while the men where TSAGUE GAETAN and NTONE SERGES. For the female category, MAKANKAM did not see the lign up of the first 3 places while NTEMGOUA battled it out with NGUELIFACK STEPHANIE of INJS who came 1st and NTEMGOUA 2nd earning her a silver medal, while in the men’s category, both of them did not meet up the expectation of the first three places.
At the long jump competition for ladies, UDs lined up MAFFO LAURE who did not make it to the classification level same for BELTA NTEMGOUA CHOMOH who did not make it to the classification level at the short put for ladies. In the meantime, at the discus throw final for men, UDs lined up DEFFO ARNAUD who came 4th in the competition while EYANGO CHRISTIAN grabbed the bronze medal. Summarily, the first day in this category of competition earned the UDs 2 bronze medals and a silver medal.
Fixtures for Monday 24th April 2017 for athletics
200m series both men and women qualifiers and finals, 400m series both men and women qualifiers and finals, 5000m men finals, relay 4 by 100m series both men and women qualifiers only, finals for long jump men, finals for discus throw women, finals for short put men. DT
