{"id":3439,"date":"2020-03-01T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2020-03-01T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:07:23","slug":"christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games","title":{"rendered":"Christine Ongare becomes second Kenyan boxer to qualify for Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s Christine Ongare brushed off Uganda\u2019s Catherine Nanziri at the Africa Boxing Olympics qualifiers\u00a0in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday, February 29 to book her place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Ongare, who became a mom at the tender age of 12, out-boxed the skilful Ugandan, winning eventually by unanimous points decision.<\/p>\n<p>The commonwealth bronze-medalist beat the Ugandan in the Box-Off Women\u2019s Flyweight category to join Niko Okoth, the other Kenyan boxer who has qualified for the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She has done it! Dream come true for Christine Ongare ?? as she seals <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TokyoOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TokyoOlympics<\/a> slot after a Box-Off win over Ugandan Catherine Nanziri in women&#39;s flyweight at Africa Boxing Olympic Qualification in Dakar. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoadtoTokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RoadtoTokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamKenya?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamKenya<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HitSquad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HitSquad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wKiiM4M2T6\">pic.twitter.com\/wKiiM4M2T6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; National Olympic Committee &#8211; Kenya (@OlympicsKe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicsKe\/status\/1233797454774050817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dope! They are Africa\u2019s fabulous women in sport. They are both mothers; both competing at elite international level. They are 44 yr old Nigerian table tennis player Olufunke Oshonaike and 28 yr old Kenyan boxer Christine Ongare. And they hav both qualified for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TokyoOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TokyoOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C1wRwGpzky\">pic.twitter.com\/C1wRwGpzky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; cheryl roberts (@cherylroberts00) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cherylroberts00\/status\/1234089945108799489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s Christine Ongare brushed off Uganda\u2019s Catherine Nanziri at the Africa Boxing Olympics qualifiers\u00a0in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday, February 29 to book her place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Ongare, who became a mom at the tender age of 12, out-boxed the skilful Ugandan, winning eventually by unanimous points decision. The commonwealth bronze-medalist beat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[1863,1864,1865,1862],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-boxing","tag-catherine-nanziri","tag-christine-ongare","tag-olympics-qualification"],"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>Christine Ongare becomes second Kenyan boxer to qualify for Olympic Games - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kenya\u2019s Christine Ongare brushed off Uganda\u2019s Catherine Nanziri at the Africa Boxing Olympics qualifiers\u00a0in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday, February\" \/>\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\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christine Ongare becomes second Kenyan boxer to qualify for Olympic Games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kenya\u2019s Christine Ongare brushed off Uganda\u2019s Catherine Nanziri at the Africa Boxing Olympics qualifiers\u00a0in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday, February\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-01T15:07:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/wxubgz7jc21jgbohy5e5b5750c268e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Christine Ongare becomes second Kenyan boxer to qualify for Olympic Games\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-01T15:07:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games\"},\"wordCount\":102,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/wxubgz7jc21jgbohy5e5b5750c268e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Boxing\",\"Catherine Nanziri\",\"Christine Ongare\",\"Olympics qualification\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sport\/christine-ongare-becomes-second-kenyan-boxer-to-qualify-for-olympic-games\",\"name\":\"Christine Ongare becomes second Kenyan boxer to qualify for Olympic Games - 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