Badminton fruits are super visible as City Tyres we commit to continue the partnership. Bashasha.
On the grand opening of the 8th City Tyres, Linglong East Africa Badminton Challenge at Lugogo Indoor on Wednesday 14, Mandela Group of Companies Head of Marketing Harbert Bashasha commended the fruitful engagements with Badminton.
“Today we have signed in our 8 eighth edition of the City Tyres East Africa Badminton Challenge, we do this with our prime sponsor of the edition Linglong, For eight editions in ten years we moved to a right cause and we have seen the players we started with reaching the world stage.”
Players that have raised through this initiative are playing in World Championship other are representing Uganda at Continental in Africa Championships, that pushes us to continue because the fruits are super visible Over 1500 players have entered to participate in this years edition raising from around 200 we had in the first edition.”
Badminton Uganda top leader Annet Nakamya hailed the support Mandela Group of Companies via City Tyres and partner LingLong Tire have lendered since the marriage started,”we are very proud of the support from our partners, it has laid a great foundation to the sport of badminton, it is not the same since they came in, we always getting a big number of entrants which also mirrors the bigger pull for the national team.”
The games which are going on until Sunday October 18 has participants from all East Africa Countries and extensively from China, India, DR Congo and other visiting countries, in the last editions 1118 players took part in the championship and the number has basted by over 400 entrant for the 42 events of this champions which includes either genders of U10, U13, U15, U19, Elite players and Proffessionals while Cooperates also participate.
The championship takes individualsa, schools and national team events while the Chinese and Indian event have been introduced in this year and last year to commend the contribution the nations has submitted on the development of the sport in Uganda.