Christine Akullo

Christine Akullo (born 23 June 1990) is a Ugandan Paralympic athlete competing in the T13 Category. Akullo won Gold for Uganda in the T13 100m at the 2011 All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique as well as the 2015 All Africa Games. She was also Uganda's flag bearer at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

Background and education Akullo was born in Aboke, Soroti District, Uganda to Joseph Ayom and Jennet Rose Agiro. After contracting malaria in 1998, she became partially blind.

Athletics She joined the national team in 2007 though other sources state that she took up para-athletics in 2010 while in Soroti.

In 2015, Akullo run in 13.34 seconds to win another gold medal in the final of the women's T13 100m at the Africa Games that were held in Brazzaville.

Akullo later represented Uganda at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai in November of that year where she finished fifth in the second heat of the T13 100m semifinal thus putting her Olympic qualification on hold.