| Noc: | UGA |
| Nocname: | Uganda Olympic Committee |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Location: | Paris, France |
| Competitors: | 24 |
| Sports: | 4 |
| Flagbearer Open: | Charles Kagimu & Gloria Muzito |
| Rank: | 55 |
| Gold: | 1 |
| Silver: | 1 |
| Bronze: | 0 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Uganda competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's official debut in 1956, Ugandan athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for Montreal 1976 as part of the Congolese-led boycott.
Ugandan marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei was murdered by her boyfriend in Eldoret in Kenya over an argument, sustaining multiple burns before dying of multiple organ failure.
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| width="22%" align="left" valign="top"|| Medals by sport | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | |||
| Athletics | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Medals by gender | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Total | |||||||
| Male | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Female | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Mixed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | style=background:gold | 1 | style=background:silver | 1 | style=background:#c96 | 0 | 2 | |
| Medals by date | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | |||
| 2 August | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 6 August | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| width=180 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | 9 | 11 | 20 | ||||
| Cycling | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Rowing | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Swimming | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 11 | 13 | 24 |
See main article: article, Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Ugandan track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):[1] [2]
Joshua Cheptegei won gold in the men's 10,000 metres final, in a new Olympic record of 26:43.14.[3] Peruth Chemutai won Uganda's second medal of the Games, taking silver in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase while setting a new national record. [4]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Repechage | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Tarsis Orogot | 200 m | 20.32 | 1 Q | 20.64 | 6 | Did not advance | |||
| Tom Dradriga | 800 m | 1:46.05 | 6 | 1:46.15 | 5 | Did not advance | |||
| Oscar Chelimo | 5000 m | 13:52.46 | 5 Q | 13:31.56 | 20 | ||||
| Jacob Kiplimo | 10000 m | 26:46.39 | 8 | ||||||
| Joshua Cheptegei | align=left rowspan=2 | 10000 m | 26:43.14 OR | ||||||
| Martin Kiprotich | 28:20:72 | 22 | |||||||
| Leonard Chemutai | 3000 m steeplechase | 8:18.19 | 2 Q | 8:20.03 | 15 | ||||
| Victor Kiplangat | align=left rowspan=3 | Marathon | 2:11:59 | 37 | |||||
| Stephen Kissa | |||||||||
| Andrew Rotich Kwemoi | 2:17:28 | 62 | |||||||
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Repechage | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Halimah Nakaayi | 800 m | 2:00:56 | 4 | 2:02:88 | 6 | Did not advance | |||
| Winnie Nanyondo | 1500 m | 4:07.06 | 10 | 4:06.35 | 8 | Did not advance | |||
| Esther Chebet | align=left rowspan=2 | 5000 m | 15:10:36 | 13 | Did not advance | ||||
| Belinda Chemutai | 15:23:90 | 12 | Did not advance | ||||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Joy Cheptoyek | 5000 m | Did not advance | ||||||
| 10000 m | Withdrew[5] | ||||||||
| Sarah Chelangat | align=left rowspan=2 | 10000 m | 31:02.37 | 12 | |||||
| Annet Chemengich Chelangat | 31:50.41 | 21 | |||||||
| Peruth Chemutai | 3000 m steeplechase | 9:10.51 | 1 Q | 8:53.34 | |||||
| Mercyline Chelangat | align=left rowspan=3 | Marathon | 2:39:40 | 69 | |||||
| Rebecca Cheptegei | 2:32:14 | 44 | |||||||
| Stella Chesang | 2:26:01 | 8 | |||||||
See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
For the first time since 1984, Uganda entered one male rider to compete in the road race events at the Olympic. The nation's secured those quota through the 2023 African Championships in Accra, Ghana.[6]
See main article: Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Ugandan rowers qualified one boats in the women's single sculls for the Games through the 2023 African Qualification Regatta in Tunis, Tunisia.[7]
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=RepechageSee main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Uganda sent two swimmers to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| Jesse Ssengonzi | Men's 100 m butterfly | 53.76 | 31 | Did not advance | ||||
| Gloria Muzito | Women's 100 m freestyle | 55.95 | 22 | Did not advance | ||||
Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.