Leni Shida
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.jpg) Shida at the 2023 African Games | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 22 May 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Bugema University[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 200 m, 400 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Kevin and Sue O'Connor | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shida was born in Arua in 1994[1] as the daughter of Abdulatif Tiyua,[4] a retired military officer and former deputy commander the West Nile Bank Front rebel group.[5]
Career
After Kevin and Sue O'Connor began coaching Shida in August 2013, she represented Uganda at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow reaching the semifinals. This was her first competition outside of Uganda. In February 2018, in Kampala, she ran 52.47 to break the 12-year-old 400m National Record. She has now broken this record on 7 occasions, most recently at the 2019 National Championships (51.47), where she also broke the 12-year-old 200m National Record with a time of 23.43. Shida's most notable international achievement was 400m Silver Medal (51.64) at the 2019 World University Games held in Naples, Italy.
She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[6]
