page_title: Uganda at the 2012 Summer Olympics
section_title: Women
hierarchical_section_title: Uganda at the 2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics / Women
caption_attribution_description: The men's marathon of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, UK took place on an Olympic marathon street course on Sunday 12th August 2012 at 11:00. This was the final day of the 30th Olympic Games. The London 2012 marathon course is the standard Olympic distance of 26 miles 385 yards and consists of one short lap of approx 2.2 miles followed by three longer laps of 8 miles. The course began on The Mall and travelled past several of the most famous London landmarks. The start/finish line was near the Victoria Memorial. These photographs were taken at the Victoria Embankment. This featured several times on the looped course. The approximate location from the photographs is shown in the Google StreetView Link below. &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=embankment+london&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=51.510216,-0.116892&amp;spn=0.002527,0.004823&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=52.152749,79.013672&amp;hq=embankment&amp;hnear=London,+United+Kingdom&amp;t=m&amp;fll=51.509904,-0.115314&amp;fspn=0.002527,0.004823&amp;z=18&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=51.510216,-0.116892&amp;panoid=PgMJsi8L00PXLEWiiRZHsw&amp;cbp=12,218.97,,0,0" rel="nofollow"&gt;maps.google.com/maps?q=embankment+london&amp;hl=en&amp;ll...&lt;/a&gt; Stephen Kiprotich won in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 1 second as he pulled away from the Kenyan duo of Abel Kirui and Wilson Kiprotich Kipsang.
context_page_description: Uganda competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The country's participation there marked its 13th appearance in the Summer Olympics since its début at the 1956 Summer Olympics. The delegation consisted of eleven track and field athletes that included Moses Ndiema Kipsiro, Benjamin Kiplagat, and Stephen Kiprotich, one each in badminton and weightlifting, and two swimmers. Ekiring, Ssekyaaya, Mugula, and Lunkuse had qualified through wildcard places, while the rest of the delegation satisfied the Games' qualification standards for their respective events. Mugula was selected as the team captain. Mugula was also selected as the flag bearer for both the opening and closing ceremonies. The country's best result at these Games was a gold medal for Kiproitch in the men's marathon, its first such medal since the 1972 Munich Olympics.
context_section_description: Competing at her first Olympic Games at the age of 24, Janet Achola earned qualification into the Games by posting a time of 4 minutes, 5.52 seconds, at the 2012 Fanny Blankers-Koen Games on 30 May, which was 0.48 seconds quicker than the "A" qualifying standard forwomen's 1500 metres. She said the training that she received from coach allowed her to achieve success and set herself the objective of securing her first medal at an international event. Overall she finished 22nd out of 44 competitors, and was 3.81 seconds slower than the two slowest athletes who progressed to the semi-finals and, therefore, that was the end of her competition.
  Dorcus Inzikuru was one of the oldest athletes to compete for Uganda at the London Olympic Games at the age of 30. She was the only one of the team's athletes to have taken part in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Inzikuru gained qualification into the London Games by winning the 3,000 metres steeplechase race at the 2012 International Athletics Bottrop Gala, with a time of 9 minutes, 30.95 seconds, which was 12.05 seconds faster than the "A" qualifying standard for the women's 3000 metres steeplechase, and was the last Ugandan athlete to obtain qualification. To prepare herself for the Games she trained in Iten, Kenya. Inzikuru said that if she performed well at the Games it would allowed her to participate in European events after finding it difficult to obtain visa to travel to the continent but did not promise any medals. She was placed in the third heat on 4 August, finishing seventh out of 14 runners, with a time of 9 minutes, 35.29 seconds. She finished 20th out of 44 runners overall, and did not qualify for the semi-finals because her time was 5.43 seconds slower than the slowest qualifier in her heat.
  Jane Suuto was the joint oldest person to represent Uganda at the London Games at the age of 33. She had not entered any previous Summer Olympics. Sutto qualified for the Games because she achieved a third-place finish at the 2012 Riga Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 42 minutes, 7 seconds, that met the "B" qualifying standard for the women's marathon. In an interview with New Vision before she competed Suuto said: "I will not promise a medal but I will go out there to offer my best and whatever God offers me. I will take it with both hands. I will go out there and fight." In the event held on 5 August, she finished 93rd out of 107 athletes, with a time of two hours, 44 minutes and 46 seconds. Suuto finished 21 minutes, 39 seconds behind winner Tiki Gelana of Ethiopia (2 hours, 23 minutes, 7 seconds).
  Key
  Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  Men
  Women
caption: Stephen Kiprotich won the men's marathon, the first gold medal for Uganda since 1972.
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