OYDC READY TO HOST JUDOKAS FROM THREE NATIONS AHEAD OF COMPETITION

27 Jun

OYDC READY TO HOST JUDOKAS FROM THREE NATIONS AHEAD OF COMPETITION

By Noah Silomba News, Sport 0 Comments

FOUR countries are set to have their Judokas take part in the upcoming training camp and competition to be held at OYDC Zambia.

The countries Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia the hosts will have athletes getting into camp between 27 to 30 June 2022. The competition after the training camp will be conducted from 1 to 2 July at the Dojo Hall within the OYDC facilities.

The Southern Africa Judo Confederation in partnership with Zambia Judo Association have organised the camping and competition.

Meanwhile, OYDC Zambia Chief Executive Officer Dr Fredrick Chitangala says the hosting of such a prestigious competition should inspire other sports associations both local and international to make use of these facilities for their events.

He says the centre is always ready to host similar competitions.

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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.