Namibian athletes with disabilities won 10 medals on the opening day of the World Para Athletics (WPA) 2023 Jesolo Grand Prix underway in Jesolo, Italy.The fifth round of the WPA Grand Prix is being held at the Armando Picchi Stadium as Para-athletes c…
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Basketball: Misto do Bié unbeaten in wheelchair basketball championship
Misto do Bié outclassed Misto do Namibe 82-08 in the third round of the series A of the 18th national senior men’s wheelchair basketball championship, taking place in Lubango.In other games of the same group played Friday, Misto do Cuanza Sul lost to d…
Petro beat Sporting of Alexandria in handball Cup Winners’ Cup
Petro de Luanda’s senior women’s handball team beat Sporting of Alexandria 26-20 on Tuesday morning, in their debut match of the Cup Winners’ Club Cup, taking place in Egypt.At half-time, referring to the first round of group A of the 39th Edition of t…
Team Namibia Readies for European Tour
The Namibia Paralympic Committee (NPC) is hard at work as it has set its sight on taking a bigger group of athletes to the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships slated for Paris, France in July.A group of nine athletes and five guides will travel to …
South/West produces 15 players for maiden Global Grassroots Football Tournament final
Fifteen players have been selected from the South-West zone for the final of the maiden Global Grassroots Football Tournament (GGFT) scheduled to take place in Abuja on May 17.Joseph Ombugala, Chief Zonal Coordinator, Global Grassroots Football Tournam…
Angola close to beat the 2015 African Cup medal record
Luanda – Angolan National Team won 59 medals at the Alvalade swimming pool, in Luanda, and is close to reaching the 2015 record.So far, the country snatched 22 gold medals. Also 19 silver and 18 bronze at the African Swimming Championship in zone IV.Th…
Petro de Luanda beat Al Alhy
Petro de Luanda beat Thursday Al Alhy of Egypt 91-90 in the fifth and last round match of the preliminary stage of the African Basketball League (BAL).The victory allows the Angolan side to rank first, with 10 points, and take the lead of the series in…
Angola win 33 medals on second day of zone IV Swimming Championship
Angola’s national team finished Thursday in style the second day of the African Zone IV Championship, which ends on Sunday in Luanda.Angolan team remain in second place in the overall medal standings, now with nine gold, five silver and the same number…
Botha acquires ICECP diploma
Athletics coach Henk Botha says his recently acquired International Coaching Enrichment Certificate Programme (ICECP) diploma will help him grow as an individual, as well as help many Namibian athletes.The ICECP honoured members of its XII (12) and XII…
African Cup: Angola win first medal in swimming championship
Angolan swimmer, Rhanya Santo, obtained Wednesday in Luanda province the silver medal in the youth category with a time of 10. 25.55, in the 800 meters free race of the debut of the zone IV of the African Championship, at the Alvalade swimming pool.Rha…
Good start for junior athletes at the CAA championships in Zambia
Junior athletes representing Namibia at the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) championships underway in Lusaka, Zambia put in impressive performances to reach the next round of the competition.The African Junior Athletics Championships is a bien…
Angolan Pinotes ruled out of African swimming championship
Pedro Pinotes, one of the most important swimming athletes of Angola, was “forced” to withdraw from the African Zone IV Swimming Championship due to the rules imposed by the organisers of the event to be held from May 3-7 at the Alvalade swimming pool…