Robert Kajuga (born 1 January 1985 in Kaniga, Gicumbi District) is a

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track and road runner. He represented

in the

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at the

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. Kajuga qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympics on July 8, 2012 when he ran the 10,000-metre at the African Senior Athletics Championship in

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in a time of 28:03 (min:sec). After his Olympic debut, where he finished 14th, he began participating in longer-distance road races. On December 24, 2012, he won a 20-km road race in

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. Kajuga finished the men's race at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 73rd place of 96 finishers. On April 21, 2013, he ran a

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recording a time of 1:01:37. He was banned for four years, spanning 25 March 2016 to 2020, after refusing to submit to a doping control after a race in

.Positive Cases in Athletics
IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-10-01.

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