Judith Ayaa was the predominant female runner at the East and Central African Athletic Championships from 1968 to 1972. During a similar range of time, she was the 4-time 400m boss, yet she likewise frequently contended in and won in the 100m and 200m, just as when she was important for the Uganda hand-off groups. Ayaa's triumph in the 400m at the ECA titles in Dar-es-Salaam was another Africa record- - 53.6. By uprightness of this individual best time in 1969, Ayaa was in 1969 positioned among the world's best 10 female 400-meters runners. Kampala International University
Since there were a moderately low number of ladies contending in the 400m at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, just a semi-last and a last would thus happen. On July 22 1970 arranged in the second of the two semi-last warms. She won in a serious astounding time- - 52.86- - another Africa record. The time positioned her as 11th best on the planet in 1970.
The last occurred on the 23rd. However, having been the quickest among the semi-finalists, Ayaa had maybe ran excessively quick. She maybe should have ran in loosened up step, sufficiently quick to be among the best four of both of the semi-last warms that would guarantee their fitting the bill for the finals. In this second semi-last warmth, Sandra Brown of Australia completed second in an entire second behind Ayaa. The main semi-last warmth where Marilyn Fay Neufville of Jamaica won in 53.05, was obviously one of more propriety and unwinding.
In the last, slim and moderately short 17 year-old Neufville won in 51.02- - another world record. She won by an amazing over two seconds in front of silver medallist Sandra Brown of Australia (53.66). Neufville along these lines shaved of by almost a second the world record of 51.7 set in 1969 by Frenchwomen Colette Besson and Nicole Duclos. Judith Ayaa, overwhelmed subsequent to backing off close to the furthest limit of the race, likely because of exhaustion after her superfluous effort in the semi-finals, was third (53.77) intently behind Sandra Brown and won the bronze. The weariness had likely expense her in any event the silver decoration; however the Commonwealth bronze would be one of Ayaa's most esteemed worldwide belongings! It was Uganda's first Commonwealth Matches' decoration dominated by a lady!
In 1970 at the East-Central African Championships held in Nairobi, Ayaa won in the 400-meters in 54.0. That was notwithstanding her 100m win.
Ayaa contended at the USA-Pan African Track-and-Field Meet held in mid-July 1971 at Duke University in Durham, NC. Her gold award winning planning was 54.69.
Still in 1971, at the ECA Championships in Lusaka, Ayaa won in the 400-meters (54.7); and she was important for the Uganda gold award triumphant groups in both run transfers.
Ayaa contended at a Pre-Olympic two-day Meet ("Hanns-Braun Memorial International Pre-Olympic Invitational") in mid-August 1972 in Munich, a development for the impending Olympics in a similar city of West Germany.
20 year-old Ayaa, took an interest among the 3 warms of the ladies' 400 meters. The top in general finishers would be implied. Through and through Ayaa's time was second best- - 52.68- - another Africa record. Afterward, early September 1972, in Munich at the Olympics, Ayaa was again planned in 52.68 seconds when she completed third in the quarter finals and progressed to the semi-finals. She subsequently approached her own best and Africa record. Ayaa would be killed from progressing to the Olympic finals when she completed seventh (52.91) in a semi-last warmth.
At the pre-Olympic meet in Munich, on the second day of the meet, Ayaa also contended in the 200-meters and completed fifth. Results were (AP 1972: 66):
1. Marina Sidorova (Soviet Union), 23.78; 2. Karollne Kaefer (Austria), 23.99; 3. Vilma Charlton (Jamaica), 24.04; 4. Una Morris (Jamaica), 24.11; 5. Judith Ayaa (Uganda), 24.12.
Judith Ayaa would disappear from the global rivalry spotlight after 1973. The President Idi Amin Dada gave her the Uganda banner in her ability as group chief for the public group that was destined for Lagos for the All-Africa Games in January 1973. She was required to win in the 400m. Be that as it may, potentially because of wounds, disorder, or deficient preparing, she didn't contend in any of the individual runs in Lagos. However, she conceivably contended in the ladies' 4x400m transfer wherein Uganda won gold.
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