{"id":90969,"date":"2025-11-28T17:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gnoc-announces-fourteen-athletes-for-the-african-youth-games"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:39:54","slug":"gnoc-announces-fourteen-athletes-for-the-african-youth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gnoc-announces-fourteen-athletes-for-the-african-youth-games","title":{"rendered":"GNOC Announces Fourteen Athletes for the African Youth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Gambia National Olympic Committee has announced the participation of fourteen young athletes competing in four sports at the 2025 ANOCA African Youth Games in Luanda, Angola, from December 10 to December 20, 2025. The athletics are as follows.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In athletics \u2013 track and field, Buba Bayo, Abdoulie Saidy, Modou Lamin Touray, Madiba Jatta, Rohey Camara, Fatoumatta Koteh, Maimuna Mendy, Adama Njie, Musa Kujabi, and Abdou Wadda will compete.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Correa will compete in badminton, while in beach volleyball, Abdallah Bah, Omar Bojang will compete, and in judo, we have Alima Jobe.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation will be led by the GNOC Chef de Mission, Salifu Touray, president of the Gambia Tug-of-War Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Gambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The Gambia National Olympic Committee has announced the participation of fourteen young athletes competing in four sports at the 2025 ANOCA African Youth Games in Luanda, Angola, from December 10 to December 20, 2025. The athletics are as follows. In athletics \u2013 track and field, Buba Bayo, Abdoulie Saidy, Modou Lamin Touray, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":90968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-90969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GNOC Announces Fourteen Athletes for the African Youth Games - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gnoc-announces-fourteen-athletes-for-the-african-youth-games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GNOC Announces Fourteen Athletes for the African Youth Games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. 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