KUKUNDAKWE Husnah

Uganda
Swimming
25 Mar 2007
14
Female
SB8
KAMPALA
 
Uganda
KAMPALA
 
Uganda

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
SWM Swimming Women's 100m Breaststroke - SB8  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Women's 100m Breaststroke - SB8 Heat 1
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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RankEventYearLocationResult
World Championships
1250m Freestyle - S92019London, GBR38.14
14100m Freestyle - S92019London, GBR1:24.85
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Husnah (Instagram profile, 07 Apr 2020)
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Watching films, reading. (Athlete, 27 Aug 2021)
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Student
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English
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Dolphins Swim Club [Kampala, UGA]
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Paul Bampata [club]; Muzafaru Muwanguzi [club, national]
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2019 for Uganda (Athlete, 07 Sep 2019)
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She began swimming at age three and started lessons two years later at Sir Apollo Kaggwa school in Uganda. (Athlete, 27 Aug 2021; Facebook page, 26 Jul 2019; monitor.co.ug, 02 May 2019)
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"At first I started swimming to have fun, just to play in the water. Then I watched my cousin who was swimming at a gala at school. He would swim so fast and leave the others behind. I was like, 'Why can't I do this'. I tried volleyball. I tried netball. But swimming was the only sport I could manage. Then I just started competing." (Next Media Uganda YouTube channel, 10 Mar 2019; Sanyuka TV Uganda Facebook page, 06 Feb 2019; New Vision TV YouTube channel, 20 Apr 2018)
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To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Twitter profile, 30 Apr 2020)
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She trains for 13 hours a week. (Athlete, 27 Aug 2021)
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Qualifying to compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Athlete, 27 Aug 2021)
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New Zealand Para swimmer Sophie Pascoe, Irish Para swimmer Ellen Keane. (Athlete, 27 Aug 2021)
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Her mother. (Athlete, 27 Aug 2021)
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Before a race she swings her hands and legs and does a squat jump. (Athlete, 27 Aug 2021)
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In 2020 she received the Inspirational Athlete Award at the DSTV Aquatics Excellence Awards. (nocuganda.org, 30 Mar 2020)

General Interest

Classification
S9, SB8, SM9 (IPC, 16 Mar 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (olympicchannel.com, 20 Nov 2019; Next Media Uganda YouTube channel, 10 Mar 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (olympicchannel.com, 20 Nov 2019)

Impairment Details
She was born without her right forearm and with a malformation to her left hand. (olympicchannel.com, 20 Nov 2019; newvision.co.ug, 02 Apr 2019)

General
OVERCOMING SHYNESS
Swimming helped her to become a more positive person. "When I started school, I was very shy. I would wear a sweater for the whole day, even if was hot, just to make sure I could hide my hands. People would look at me differently but when I was at school, people would stare at me. Some people would laugh. One time they laughed and I got so angry. That day I went home and told my mum they were laughing at me, and there was nothing I could do about it because I can't say bad words to them because of school rules. When I started swimming, people started to know me and I began to lose that shyness. I lost the sweater, forgot about it and started moving around the compound happy, not shy. Swimming has made me more confident." (paralympic.org, 17 Jul 2019; paralympic.org, 18 Dec 2020)

TRAINING
She trains with able-bodied swimmers at the Dolphins Swim Club in Uganda, which she believes gives her a more competitive mentality. "Competing with able-bodied swimmers is very hard, but also competing with Para swimmers is not that easy. But I'm very happy because I get encouragement by seeing some [Para] swimmers who have a more serious impairment than mine." (NTVUganda YouTube channel, 17 May 2019; Next Media Uganda YouTube channel, 10 Mar 2019)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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