▪️African Games and IBA flyweight champion Patrick Chinyemba to lead the seven-man team to Dubai
Zambia’s most decorated boxer Patrick “Baddo” Chinyemba will lead a seven-man formidable team to Dubai for the World Championships from December 2-13.
The President of Zambia Boxing Federation Boniface Sokoni announced the team today brimming with confidence ahead of the richest ever IBA Men’s World Championships in which $8.32 million will be at stake as prize money.
Chinyemba, the reigning African Games flyweight champion and 2022 Africa Elite Championships gold medallist, will captain the team.
“We have Faith the seven boxers we have named will do us proud in Dubai,” Sokoni told boxersworld.co.ke in an interview.
The other six boxers are African Games welterweight champion Gerald Kabinda, African Games silver medallists, light-welterweight Emmanuel Katema and lightweight, Andrew Chilata, Africa Elite Championships two-time silver medalist Mwengo Mwale, Africa Military silver medallist Nene Maonga and light-middleweight Jonathan Mwiinga.
At the last World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Zambia was the most successful African team followed by Ghana.
The Zambians had two boxers in the quarters, Chinyemba and Chilata who lost their fights. Chinyemba went down 3-4 points to Spain”s Martin Molina while Chilata was beaten 5-0 by Cuba’s Erislandy Alvarez.
Zambia is currently among Africa’s top-ten boxing nations in Africa.
They put up a remarkable show at the African Games in Accra in 2024, finishing fifth overall with two gold, three silver and two bronze medals behind winners Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana and DR Congo.
Zambia’s full team for Dubai Worlds
Minimumweight
Nene Maonga
Flyweight
Patrick Chinyemba (captain)
Bantamweight
Mwengo Mwale
Lightweight
Andrew Chilata.
Light-welterweight
Emmanuel Katema
Welterweight
Gerald Kabinda
Light-middleweight
Jonathan Mwiinga
Head coach
Charles Kangwa
Assistant coach
Maybin Gunduzani
Doctor
Chileshe Chisela
ZBF official
James Kapansa
