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Cindy Ngamba
Cindy Winner Djankeu Ngamba (born 7 September 1998) is a Cameroonian boxer who competed for the EOC Refugee Team at the 2023 European Games. She is the first-ever medalist for the Refugee Olympic Team at the Olympics, having won bronze in women's 75 kg boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Personal life Ngamba was born in Cameroon. At the age of 11, Ngamba moved to the United Kingdom. Her uncle lost Ngamba's immigration paperwork when he moved back to Cameroon. Ngamba has since gained a BA (Hons) degree in Crime and Criminal Justice at the University of Bolton. In 2019, Ngamba and her brother were detained whilst attending an immigration office in Bolton, and sent to a detention centre in London. They were released the following day. Aged 18, Ngamba came out as lesbian; as such, she does not want to return to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal. Career Ngamba trains with GB Boxing, although she cannot compete for Great Britain as she does not have a British passpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Refugee Olympic Team
The Refugee Olympic Team is a group made up of independent Olympic participants who are refugees. In March 2016, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach announced the creation of the Refugee Olympic Athletes Team, as a symbol of hope for all refugees in the world in order to raise global awareness of the scale of the migrant crisis in Europe. In September 2017, the IOC established the Olympic Refugee Foundation to continue supporting refugees in the long term. The Olympic flag and the Olympic Hymn are used as team symbols. As the participating athletes marched through the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics, the team entered the stadium as the penultimate delegation, just before the host country. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, the team entered the stadium second only to Greece. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, the IOC's country code (ROT) was used, but at the 2020 Summer Olympics it was updated to (EOR) for French Équipe olympique des réfugiés. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1991, and has sometimes played a large role inducing organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most notably when it encouraged the Premier League to break away from the Football League in 1992. Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League, Football, Cricket, Golf, F1, Action and Arena are available as a premium package on top of the basic Sky package. These services are also available as premium channels on nearly every satellite, cable and IPTV broadcasting system in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sky Sports News, Sky Sports Racing and Sky Sports Mix are all provided as part of basic packages. The Sky Sports network is managed by Jonathan Licht. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davina Michel
Davina Michel (born 27 December 1997) is a French boxer. She competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in the boxing competition, winning no medal. She also competed at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships, winning the bronze medal in the middleweight Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to . Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have be ... event. References External links * 1997 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) French women boxers Middleweight boxers AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists Boxers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 21st-century French sportswomen European Games silver medalists for France European Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2023 European Games Boxers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for France {{France-bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships – Middleweight ...
The Middleweight competition at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships was held from 11 to 20 May 2022. Results Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External linksDraw {{DEFAULTSORT:2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships - Middleweight Middleweight Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the middleweight division is contested above and up to . Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammara Thibeault
Tammara Thibeault (born December 27, 1996) is a Canadian boxer competing in the Middleweight category. Thibeault won the 2022 World Championship in Istanbul after earlier winning the middleweight bronze in 2019. She is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion when she won gold in Birmingham in 2022, improving on her bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Thibeault is also the current Pan American Games champion when she won gold at the 2023 Pan Am Games, again improving on her bronze from the 2019 Pan American Games. Career At her first Senior event, Thibeault won the gold medal at the 2017 Pan American Championships which were held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, Thibeault won the bronze medal in the middleweight event. At the 2019 Pan American Games, Thibeault originally won the bronze medal in the middleweight event, but was later upgraded to silver after the gold medalist was stripped of her medal due to doping. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships
The 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships (the 12th edition of the championships) was held in Istanbul, Turkey from 8 to 20 May 2022. Medal winners were awarded prize money; gold medallists earn $100,000, silver medallists $50,000, and bronze medallists $25,000. The overall prize fund was $2.4 million. The programme was extended from 10 to 12 weight categories. Algeria, Kosovo, Lithuania, Mozambique, Spain and Uzbekistan won their first medals at the Women's World Boxing Championships. Schedule ''All times are local (UTC+3).'' Medal summary Medal table Medal events Participating nations 310 athletes from 72 countries and the IBA ''Fair Chance Team'' will participate in the championships: # (4) # (5) # (4) # (10) # (1) # (2) # (4) # (6) # (1) # (4) # (1) # (1) # (1) # (7) # (4) # (4) # (5) # (3) # (2) # (4) # Fair Chance Team (2) # (2) # (5) # (7) # (2) # (1) # (1) # (4) # (12) # (9) # (8) # (8) # (12) # (10) # (1) # (1) # (1) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahya Al-Ghotany
Yahya Al Ghotany (; born 2004) is a Syrian taekwondo practitioner. A refugee in Jordan, he was selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics and was named the flag bearer for the Refugee Olympic Team. Biography Al Ghotany was born in Syria as the first of seven children. The Syrian civil war started when he was age seven, and his family fled the country for the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan. In 2016, at age 12, he learned of taekwondo "by chance": a friend informed him of courses taught nearby by the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF), at the Azraq Academy. His coach recalled "When Yahya started taekwondo in 2016, he was a young boy, 12 years old. He came to me and said, 'I want taekwondo'". According to '' The Korea Times'', "It didn't take long before Al Ghotany showed a natural ability for the sport and began aspiring for the highest levels as an athlete." Within five years, he reached a rank of black belt second-dan, which usually requires seven years of training. Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantelle Reid
Chantelle Reid (born 31 May 1998) is an English amateur boxer. She represented Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Career Reid won a gold medal at the 2014 European Junior Boxing Championship and bronze a year later at the World Youth Championship before a back injury forced her to quit the sport for six years. Upon returning to the ring she claimed an England Boxing National Amateur Championships title in 2023 and was subsequently awarded a place on the GB Boxing podium squad. In March 2024, Reid secured a quota spot for the 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ... in Paris when she defeated Uzbekistan's Aziza Zokirova by unanimous decision in the quarter-finals at the World Qualification Tournament 1 in Busto Arsizio, Italy. On 7 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 World Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament 1
The 2024 World Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 for the boxing tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ... in Paris, France was held in Busto Arsizio, Italy from 3 to 11 March 2024. Quota winners Men Women Qualification summary Results Men Flyweight (51 kg) ;Section 1 ;Section 2 ;Section 3 ;Section 4 Featherweight (57 kg) ;Section 1 ;Section 2 ;Section 3 ;Section 4 Light welterweight (63.5 kg) ;Section 1 ;Section 2 ;Section 3 ;Section 4 Light middleweight (71 kg) ;Section 1 ;Section 2 ;Section 3 ;Section 4 Light heavyweight (80 kg) ;Section 1 ;Section 2 ;Section 3 ;Section 4 Heavyweight (92 kg) ;Section 1 ;Section 2 ;Section 3 ;Section 4 Super heavyweight (+92 kg) ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss Civil Code (articles 60–79). Founded by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern ( Summer, Winter, and Youth) Olympic Games. The IOC is the governing body of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and of the worldwide "Olympic Movement", the IOC's term for all entities and individuals involved in the Olympic Games. As of 2020, there are 206 NOCs officially recognised by the IOC. The current president of the IOC is Thomas Bach. The stated mission of the IOC is to promote the Olympics throughout the world and to lead the Olympic Movement: *To encourage and support the organization, development, and coordination of sport and sports competitions; *To ensure the regular c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing At The 2023 European Games – Women's Middleweight
The women's middleweight boxing event at the 2023 European Games The 3rd European Games ( pl, III Igrzyska Europejskie, Igrzyska Europejskie 2023), informally known as Kraków-Małopolska 2023, is a scheduled international sporting event to be held in Kraków and Małopolska, Poland in 2023. All Olympic sports h ... was held between 25 June and 2 July 2023. Results Finals Top half Section 1 Section 2 Bottom half Section 3 Section 4 References External linksDraw {{DEFAULTSORT:Boxing at the 2023 European Games - Women's middleweight Women's middleweight 2023 in women's boxing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Jonas
Natasha Jonas (born 18 June 1984) is a British professional boxer who has held the WBO female junior-middleweight title since February 2022. Since September 3rd 2022 she has held the WBC female super-welterweight title. Since November 12th 2022 she held the IBF Light middleweight title. an amateur, she won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 2012 AIBA World Championships; bronze in the light welterweight division at the 2011 European Championships; and silver in the light welterweight division at the 2014 European Championships. Amateur career Jonas took up boxing in 2005 and by 2010 she had won five ABA Championships in the 64 kg Division for Liverpool club Rotunda ABC. In November 2009 she became the first female boxer to compete for GB Boxing. In the same year she claimed gold in the 64 kg division at the 2009 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, after she overcame Csilla Csejtei of Hungary in the final. J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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