{"id":14777,"date":"2024-03-12T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paris-olympics-gb-based-boxers-patrick-brown-chantelle-reid-and-cindy-ngamba-qualify-for-games\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:30:27","slug":"paris-olympics-gb-based-boxers-patrick-brown-chantelle-reid-and-cindy-ngamba-qualify-for-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/paris-olympics-gb-based-boxers-patrick-brown-chantelle-reid-and-cindy-ngamba-qualify-for-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics: GB-based boxers Patrick Brown, Chantelle Reid and Cindy Ngamba qualify for Games"},"content":{"rendered":"


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British boxers Pat Brown and Chantelle Reid secured a quota spot for the Paris 2024 Olympics on the final day of the world qualification tournament.<\/b><\/p>\n

Team-mates Owain Harris-Allen and Kiaran MacDonald missed out in Busto Arsizio, Italy, on Monday.<\/p>\n

However, Bolton-based Cindy Ngamba, 25, became the first ever boxer in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee team to qualify for the Games.<\/p>\n

Cameroon-born Ngamba moved to the UK aged 10 and trains with the GB squad.<\/p>\n

Ngamba is yet to be granted a visa and UK citizenship,<\/a> and without a British passport she cannot represent Team GB at the Olympics, but earning one of 70 IOC refugee athlete scholarships kept alive her hope of competing in France this summer.<\/p>\n

The middleweight then claimed a stoppage victory over Kazakhstan’s Valentina Khalzova in the women’s 75kg quarter-finals – enough to book a place in Paris as four Olympic berths were available in that category.<\/p>\n

“It’s emotional,” she said. “I want to thank God, the GB boxing team and the refugee team.<\/p>\n

“If it wasn’t for the refugee team I would have turned professional or gone on a different journey. They stuck with me and welcomed me like a big family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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