By UMOSPOC Media
Uganda continued to dominate the FIM Africa Central Africa Motocross Championship by convincingly retaining the title for the 11th time in arow.
The team went into the second and final leg of the championship in Mombasa Vipingo Ridge track with a 1361-point lead margin and managed to defend it by defeating the hosts at home with 911 points against 813 points for Kenya and 158 for Tanzania who came third.
Despite winning the title for the 11th consecutive times, it was the first time Uganda defeated Kenya at home since the rivalry between the two East African countries started boiling since 2012.
Jude Kyle Musede (50cc class), Gift Tabula Sebuguzi (MX125), Waleed Omar (MX2) and Fortune Sentamu (MX1) won gold medals for Uganda collecting maximum 60points each by winning all the three heats in their respective classes.
Musede will next year be joining the 65cc class after successfully defending his 50cc title at National and regional championships.
Former team captain Maxime van Pee returned to collect Uganda 30 points after he could not finish the last heat of the race in the MX1 class.
Team Uganda went to Kenya amidst financial challenges with parents funding their children as the Inspector General of Government freezed the Federation of Motorsport Clubs of Uganda (FMU) accounts citing governance challenges.
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