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23 Mar

Beach Volleyball coach targets qualifying athletes to YoG

Teulings Beach Volleyball coordinator Isaac Tembo, has disclosed that he will use the 2018 Teulings Youth Sports Challenge and Academy at the Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) to identify and qualify athletes who can represent Zambia at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Sires, Argentina. Tembo, says a total of (8) players (4) boys and (40) girls will be competing at the OYDC on Saturday 24th March. He adds that there will be (6) games in the U15, and U19 respectively [...]

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18 Mar

Muziyo, knocks out Malawian boxer

Zambian boxer Benny Muziyo on Saturday 17th March, 2018 flogged Malawian boxer Elias Kassim through a technical knockout in 10 seconds during the international friendly boxing tournament organised by the Zambia Boxing Federation (ZBF) and staged at the Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC). The Malawian boxer could not stand the fistful jabs from Muziyo before getting “knocked out” in a blink of an eye leaving hundreds of spectators jubilating. Speaking shortly after being declared winner Muziyo, said the training he has [...]

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15 Mar

Boxing coach Mudenda happy with pugilists

Boxing National team coach Wisdom Mudenda, has expressed confidence that his boxers will outclass Malawian boxers ahead of the “Zambia Malawi” boxing tournament to be staged at the Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) on 17 March, 2018. Mudenda, says the boxers have been responding well to training sessions stating that he expects his athletes to knock out the Malawian boxers. He added that he has no doubt all the boxers will perform according to his expectation in the 10 categories. The boxers [...]

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01 Mar

Podium Performance Programme meeting attracts over 10 sports administrators

Over 10 sports administrators are attending the first Podium Performance Programme (PPP) planning meeting for the year 2018, which is taking place at the Olympic Youth Development Centre. The meeting whose theme is “Towards Tokyo 2020-Sustainable support to high performance athletes to achieve Podium Performance” has been organised by the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Child Development. The three day meeting is scheduled to end on Saturday, 3rd March. Some of the present administrators at the meeting are representing the Zambia Judo [...]

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23 Feb

OYDC hosts 2018 swimming gala

The Olympics Youth Development Centre (OYDC) is set to host the 2018 National Age Groups swimming gala from 16th to 18th March. The gala is being organised by the Zambia Swimming Union (ZASU) and will see a number of participants, showcase their breath taking skills in different swimming events. Lusaka Sharks swimming club head coach Charles Banda, says all his swimmers are ready for the gala which will be used to identify and integrate more girls to his club for the [...]

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09 Feb

Special Olympics Zambia delivers wheelchairs and food humpers

In its quest to continue empowering and reaching out to the underprivileged as well as persons living with disabilities, Special Olympics Zambia (SOZ) on Monday 5th February, 2018 presented 6 wheelchairs and assorted food stuffs to athletes who are part of the organization. The wheelchairs and foodstuffs were donated to Special Olympics Zambia by the first lady of the republic of Zambia Esther Lungu, through her charity foundation called the Esther Lungu Foundation. National Coordiantor for the Esther Lungu Foundation Mildred Chuumbu [...]

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19 Jan

Hockey girls geared for training

The U18 Girls Hockey team resumed training at the Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) in preparation for the Youth Olympics qualifiers. The team will be training on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 09;00 to 11;00.

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18 Dec

Masikana, the swimmer

His name is Tonderai Masikana, a swimmer for the Lusaka Sharks swimming club which trains from the Olympic Youth Development Centre. The young swimmer has continued to live his dream through sport. At the age of six, Masikana had started swimming and recording his personal best time during swimming competition. He started swimming in 2013 after being oriented in the Zamtel “Learn to Swim” programme at the OYDC. His love for swimming comes at a right time when Zambia wants to produce athletes [...]

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09 Dec

Zambia Judo Association President Alfred Foloko, elected as new NOCZ president

Zambia Judo president Alfred Foloko, has been elected as the new National Olympic Committee of Zambia NOCZ president. The elective meeting took place in Ndola on Saturday afternoon. Hazel Kennedy has been elected as vice president while Boniface Kambikambi is the new secretary general. Handball Association of Zambia president Victor Banda is now the new treasurer. Guy Phiri, Lea Namukonda and Kakoma Nakaonga have been elected as NOCZ Executive members.

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02 Dec

First lady Esther Lungu officiates at 2017 Special Olympics “Unified Sports Day”

Hundreds of youths on Saturday morning took part in the Special Olympics Zambia “Unified Sports Day” activities which took place at the Olympic Youth Development Centre. The first lady of the republic of Zambia Esther Lungu, who was recently appointed as the Special Olympics “50th Anniversary Ambassador” for Africa region was the guest of honour and participated in various activities. The first lady was happy to see a huge number of children with and without “intellectual disabilities” coming to the #OYDC to be part of [...]

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