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TANZANIA PICK EIGHT FOR THE BIG BATTLE IN GHANA
Double duty for Tanzanian top boxer Yusuf Changalawe
Grace Mwakamele dropped from the team
Tanzania’s final team for the African Games in Accra has been named.
Announcing the team today, the President of the Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) Lukelo Willilo thanked the government for their overwhelming support of the national boxing team.
On the boxers selected, Willilo said: “That’s the quota allocated to boxing by our Sports Ministry taking into account they’re also catering for other disciplines. We thank the government for giving boxing priority among the individual sports.”
Tanzania’s first ever female boxer to win a medal at a major international tournament, Grace Mwakamele, is among the boxers dropped from the final team – six men and two women – to represent Tanzania in the African Games.
Mwakamele, who won a silver medal in last year’s Africa Championships in Yaounde, Cameroon, was among the boxers selected last month in the provisional team of 17 pugilists – 11 men and six women – to undergo residential training at the Filbert Bayi Sports Centre in Kibaha, on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam.
BFT president Lukelo Willilo said Mwakamele’s form has idipped that’s why she has been excluded from the final team named by BFT’s technical bench.
“According to our technical team Mwakamele has not been impressive during training sessions,” Willilo told AFBC Communications
Commonwealth Games and Africa bronze medallist Yusuf Changalawe will do double duty for his country in the World Olympic Qualifiers which start on Sunday in Busto Arsizio, Italy, and in the African Games in Accra, Ghana, from March 8-23. The boxing tournament starts on March 15. Changalawe has already left for Italy.
The eight boxers picked for the African Games:
Men
Flyweight: Abdallah Mohammed
Lightweight: Ezra Paul
Welterweight: Abdallah Mfaume
Light-heavyweight: Yusuf Changalawe
Cruiserweight: Musa Maregesi
Heavyweight: Mhina Magogo
Women
Minimumweight: Miriam Maligisa
Flyweight: Zulfa Macho
Coaches
Samuel Kapungu
Muhisin Mohamed
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