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UGANDA's last top hurdler, Simon Peter Rwamuhanda is dead.
The 54-year-old former Olympian, who had been bed-ridden with cancer, died at his place in Nansana yesterday.
Rwamuhanda is from the Toilet Akii-Bua coevals that dominated path and field in the 1970s and eighties.
Having trained with Akii-Bua World Health Organization went on to win 1972 gold at the Muenchen Olympics, Rwamuhanda grabbed his first decoration four old age later, a gold at the 1976 East and Central Africa championships.
He later won 400m hurdling Ag decorations at the Commonwealth Games in Commonwealth Of Australia in 1982 and at the Africa titles in El Qahira the same year.
Rwamuhanda was also in the 4x400m squad that finished 7th at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
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The squad also had other greats of the time-John Goville, Moses Kyeswa and Microphone Okot.
Rwamuhanda had won a 400m hurdling bronze decoration at the 1978 All Africa Games in Algiers.
Rwamuhanda go forths behind five children. His married woman had died earlier.
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oh, Really feel sad about it. Cancer doesn't pity on any person, no matter how good the person is, or how old the person is.
Let his soul rest in peace.
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