Muzala Samukonga qualifies for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games - OYDC Zambia

20 May

Muzala Samukonga qualifies for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

By Noah Silomba News, Sport 0 Comments

Muzala Samukonga qualifies for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Zambian sprinter Muzala Samukonga is the latest athlete to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after putting up a good performance at the Diamond League in Morocco.

The event dubbed the Rabat/Marrakech Diamond League saw Samukonga clock 44.54s to emerge second in the 400m race.

Zambia so far has three sports disciplines that have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Boxer Patrick Chinyemba was the first athlete to qualify followed by the football team Copper Queens.

The Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with Paris as the main host city and 16 other cities spread across Metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti — an island within the French overseas country and overseas collectivity of French Polynesia.

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Noah Silomba is a Zambian-born Lusaka-based professional journalist with many years of experience in media, sport & corporate communication, digital & social media marketing and web management. Ranked 5th in Africa for the 2021 AIPS Sport Media Awards in Photography Sports Action and is a two times media awards nominee (photography sports action & best writing colour piece) categories for the years 2020 and 2021 under the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2024 Silomba was certified as the finalist for the sixth edition of the Run for Art photography contest in the category; Sport and urban environment by the Fondazione Giulio Onesti in Rome, Italy. He is also part of Cohort A for 2022 Africa Media Agency (AMA) Academy training in digital media and marketing.

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