{"id":20941,"date":"2022-05-31T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:32:12","slug":"no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi","title":{"rendered":"No African champs for Mboma, Masilingi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>INJURY has ruled out star attractions Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi from the upcoming African Senior Athletics Championships in Mauritius.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-olds&#8217; coach Henk Botha said the sprinting sensations, who recently experienced mid-race injury misfortune on the international scene, would not be in competitive physical condition by the time the championships get underway on 8 June.<\/p>\n<p>Their recuperation is promising but Botha is wary of rushing the nation&#8217;s prized assets back into action with a stacked schedule this year. The speedsters have missed out on the opening Diamond League season races.<\/p>\n<p>The priority remains to compete at the World Athletics Championships (15-24 July) and Commonwealth Games (28 July-8 August).<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Namibia is yet to announce the team for the Confederation of African Athletics&#8217; premier competition, which will be held for the first time since the 2018 edition after postponements and cancellations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristine is doing well. She&#8217;ll definitely be out for the African championships. Unfortunately, Beatrice has a nerve problem in her back that&#8217;s giving her pain. There will not be enough time to recover for the African champs, so Beatrice will also be out.<\/p>\n<p>Masilingi limped off midway through the women&#8217;s 100m at the Gaborone International Meet in Botswana on 30 April with a hamstring problem.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, Mboma tore an upper thigh muscle during the 100m at the Kip Keino Classic continental tour meeting in Kenya, pulling up in anguish and collapsing on the track.<\/p>\n<p>Their absence at the continental competition will be greatly felt, given their success-laden 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo Olympic 200m silver medallist Mboma is especially a big draw card. She is currently Africa&#8217;s highest-rated sprinter after an impressive 2021 season, which saw her claim the Diamond League trophy and the junior world title over 200m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. INJURY has ruled out star attractions Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi from the upcoming African Senior Athletics Championships in Mauritius. The 19-year-olds&#8217; coach Henk Botha said the sprinting sensations, who recently experienced mid-race injury misfortune on the international scene, would not be in competitive physical condition by the time the championships get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-20941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"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>No African champs for Mboma, Masilingi - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"INJURY has ruled out star attractions Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi from the upcoming African Senior Athleti ...\" \/>\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\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No African champs for Mboma, Masilingi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"INJURY has ruled out star attractions Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi from the upcoming African Senior Athleti ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-31T16:20:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-31T16:32:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_16-629642f84aab0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"421\" \/>\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\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No African champs for Mboma, Masilingi\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-31T16:20:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-31T16:32:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/05\/postQueueImg_16-629642f84aab0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/no-african-champs-for-mboma-masilingi\",\"name\":\"No African champs for Mboma, Masilingi - 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