Noble 26, posted 8:07:00 behind Final E race winner Tula Abujbara from Qatar who posted 8:00:22 to make her the second fastest Africa rower in the summer games.
Noble finished a distant 3rd in Heat Three of the Repechage which buried her chances of qualifying for quarter finals. She posted 8:36:1 behind Venega Cancio Milena who won the cruise and Hung Wing Yan Winne who came second. The time was fifteen seconds below her personal best of 8:21.85 which she posted in the opening race.
Noble opened Uganda’s hunt for medals in the summer games, but fell to rowing stars from Northern Ireland and Mexico respectively. Noble, 26, posted 8:21.85 in the 2000m rowing race which put her in the fifth position in a heat won by world champion Sanita Pupsure from Ireland who posted 7:46:08.
As the game kickoff, Uganda’s first representation will be by 26 year old Kathleen Grace Noble who will compete in the Women's single sculls in the rowing sport. Her appearance at the summer Games is historic as she becomes the first ever athlete to represent the country in the rowing sport.
