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GUSA CROSS COUNTRY UMaT 17


Hello  and welcome to this week's edition of Sports by  FT9. This week we focus our attention on the just ended GUSA cross country competition on UMaT campus -- Sports by FT9 headquarters. The last time  a GUSA competition was held on UMaT campus was six years ago and it was a competition of the same nature as the one held today. 


The various teams arrived on UMaT campus on Thursday, 2nd November,2017 and were officially welcomed to UMaT by the Vice Chancellor , Professor J. S. Y. Kuma  on Friday, 3rd November,2017.

A total of 9 public universities registered for the competition : UMaT , UG (Legon) ,UHAS,KNUST, UEW, UCC, UPSA, UDS and UENR .



The competition was governed by IAAF rules  and the mandatory number of athletes both male and female required to compete was 10 athletes each , this basically meant if a team had less than 8 athletes then they will  be allowed to compete but will not score any point.
The distance for both the male and female competition was 10km segregated into 5 laps.


The various teams arrived on campus at 5:30am and the competition kicked off or should I say hurdled off  at 6:55am  with  the Women's race . Before the race  started there were speculations that UCC will win hands down but after the show of strength and power by UDS' Elizabeth Azuri and Charlotte Fodjour at the end of lab 1, the speculations were silenced .
The UDS team continued with their dominance and at the end of the fifth lap with a time of 41mins,Elizabeth Azuri(UDS) came first and was followed a minute later by Charlotte Fodjour(UDS) andSarah Owu(UCC) ,who occupied second and third respectively.


The Mens Competition commenced at 8:15am , and with UMaT representing in this competition it was sad to see just few UMaT students cheering the Athletes on . Immediately at the start
of the race it was clear that UCC were going to win and this time the prediction were right .
Malik Yakubu(UCC) completed his 10km with a time of 36mins ,followed closely by Mathew Nanti.(UCC) who placed 2nd , third position went to Yakubu Alhassan  of UDS. 
UMaT's best Athlete was Charles Opoku , he completed his run with a time of 44mins and placed 36th.

At the end of everything UDS were crowned first in the ladies competition followed by UCC and UEW in second and third place respectively.
In the Men's competition , UCC placed first and UEW came in second and surprisingly UG placed third . UMaT placed 7th ahead of UPSA and UHAS. Below is the full results brought to you exclusively by FT9.
Thank you for reading . See you again next week . Bye

FT9


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