CHINYEMBA LEADS ZAMBIANS TO MOROCCO FOR MILITARY EVENT
▪️ Former WBC bantamweight champion Catherine Phiri will manage the Zambian team for the Africa Military Boxing Championships starting on June 14 in Rabat.
Zambia’s most decorated boxer currently Patrick “Baddo” Chinyemba leads a six-man team to Morocco’s capital city Rabat for the Africa Military Boxing Championships scheduled for June 14-22.
Wisdom Mudenda, head coach of Zambia Defence Forces team today (June 5) announced the team travelling to Morocco. Mudenda is also the head coach of Zambia’s national team.
Chinyemba, gold medallist at the African Games in Accra, 2023 Olympic qualifiers in Dakar and the 2022 Africa Championships in Maputo, is the captain of the team.
“I’m happy we’re going to Morocco for the Africa Military Boxing Championships, keeping us busy,” said Chinyemba, a quarter-finalist in the Paris Olympics who was keen to know when the AFBC Men’s and Women’s African Boxing Championships will take place.
In addition to flyweight Chinyemba, other boxers in the Zambia Armed Forced side are African Games light-flyweight quarter-finalist Nene Maonga, African Games bronze medallist Albert Ngulube at featherweight, lightweight Beb Banda a bronze medallist in the 2022 Africa Championships, light-welterweight Emmanuel Ngoma who represented Zambia at the 2017 Africa Championships and; 62016 Olympic qualifiers in Cameroon and welterweight Samson Phiri.
Zambia’s former WBC bantamweight champion Lieutenant Catherine Phiri will manage the team.
