Zambia’s boxing interests at the All Africa Games have ended with the remaining boxer’s exit culminating in a knockout on Wednesday evening in Maputo.
Boxing has traditionally been Zambia’s best medal performers at the All Africa Games as the team ends its worst ever performance in the event.
Lightweight Precious Makina was knocked out in the third round of his last 16 contest against Collin Richamo of Mauritius.
Richamo scored 5-1 in the first round and upped his game in the second round carding 11-3.
The Mauritians dominance was completed in the final round knocking-out Makina to end a forgettable outing for Wisdom Mudenda’s team.
Makina who was the last boxing medal hopeful remaining, now joins his six team out of the games in one of Zambia’s poorest All Africa Games outing in the same event.
His bow saw him exit the ring together with bantamweight Douglas Banda, welterweight Gilbert Choombe including big teenage middleweight prospect Ben Muziyo who lost 11-9 in a quarterfinal contest to Namibian Kasuto Mujamdja on Sunday.
Zambia’s other eliminated boxers are flyweight Chester Simpungwe, Christopher Katanga and Martin Chibela.
Medal hopes for Zambia now hinge on the track where Rachel Nachula is competing in the women’s 400 meters and Prince Mumba in the men’s 800 meters.
Karate, Badminton and Chess too are still in the hunt for honors although the latter team lost their second game to South Africa after beating Ghana in game one.
Meanwhile in the netball, Zambia lost their second game this time to Kenya who beat them 46-38.
This is after losing to 61-31 to Uganda in game one a couple of days ago.
The country has no nation sports council that can charge the face of spots in the country.It at tha centre were you nedd to have a good monitoring system.People like Mwamba Kalenga should be reste from the national sports council.That MK IS A BIG PROBLEM AT THE CENTER OF SPOTS
Boxing is barbaric please come back home and join soccer.
Boxing authorities should not expect more out of our boxers if all they concentrate on is training without proper nutrition. Times are hard pa Zed, so part of your team sponsorship in any sport should include good nutrition otherwise we’ll see a repeat of death’s in the ring or on the field of play. Experts advise that proper diet is an important part of any fitness programme, and as we all know, it is not easy these days for our sportsmen to achieve this at a personal level! So please acknowledge as part of your team’s training expenses.
We have no moral right as a country to participate in these games in the first place having failed to host them
It’s really embarassing to say the least as country to participatein the games and come back empty handedof medaless.We need a marshall plan to revive sports in Zambia.I hope the NEW INCOMING GOVT. will have a new vision for sports in Zambia in general.