Wokorach selected to captain Uganda's Commonwealth Games team

KAMPALA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Uganda has selected rugby player Micheal Wokorach to captain the 69-man contingent for the 2018 Commonwealth Games to take place in Australia.

"We decided that Wokorach is captain and Netball star Peace Proscovia who is also a professional Netballer in England is the assistant captain," Uganda's team manager Patric Ogwel told the team at the debriefing ceremony on Wednesday at the National Council of Sports (NCS) headquarters in Lugogo.

Wokorach who will also lead the rugby sevens team said he was happy that he gets a chance to captain the whole Ugandan team. "It will be my third Commonwealth Games to take part in and I am sure I will do a good job," said Wokorach.

Ogwel who is also the assistant general secretary of the National Council of Sports (NCS) said the government has decided that each of the members traveling on the Ugandan contingent receives allowances of 2,100 U.S dollars which was also being paid on Wednesday.

"We encourages the athletes and team officials to be very disciplined during the Games," added Ogwel. The Games that feature only Commonwealth member nations will take place April 5-15. The Commonwealth games are held are every four years to celebrate the common values shared members of the commonwealth through sports.

Uganda has featured at every edition since 1954 (under British Empire and Commonwealth Games). This time round Uganda will field 69 athletes in 11 disciplines with athletics having the biggest number at 23. Uganda will have the rugby 7s and Netball teams, athletics, shooting, badminton, swimming, weightlifting, squash, cycling, Boxing and table tennis

At the last Commonwealth Games held in Glasglow, Scotland in 2014 Uganda won one gold medal and four bronze. Moses Kipsiro who will miss this year's games won the 10,000m gold medal. Enditem