Times Of Swaziland: ESWATINI FINISHES 9TH IN REGION V

ESWATINI FINISHES 9TH IN REGION V
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Mengameli Mabuza on 12/12/2022 08:31:00


MBABANE –They tried their best.
Eswatini was the lowest performing country in the recently-ended Region V Youth
Games staged in the past two weeks in Lilongwe, Malawi. The kingdom’s athletes
accumulated a total of five medals, all which were gold from taekwondo. They
were placed on position nine on the medals table. The table toppers, who scooped
the most gold and silver medals was South Africa, who took home 59 gold, 26
silver and 20 bronze medals. This brings their total to an unmatched 105 medals.
Zambia was the second best in the competition with 57 medals collectively.
They were champions in various sporting codes after winning 24 gold medals, 21
silver medals, and 23 bronze medals while the hosts collected 40 medals in total
including nine gold. Angola collected a total of 36 medals .Zimbabwe had 79
while Namibia and Mozambique bagged 39 and 17 medals, respectively.
EOCGA Board Member Victor ‘Mavikane’ Dlamini, who was also Team Eswatini
Chef de Mission said they were very happy with the performance of the Eswatini
athletes and mentioned that it was an improvement from last year’s showing
despite that the country had just only 11 athletes .Mavikane applauded the
athletes for this achievement in light of the challenges they faced ahead of the
competition. “We had a great team and they did great. This was perfect for us
as Eswatini considering that we had about 11 athletes .Countries like South
Africa are well advanced,” Dlamini said. Team Eswatini had a 17-member
delegation made up of 11 athletes from three different sporting codes, namely
swimming, athletics and taekwondo.