Category: Sports

By Duncan Mlanjira British double Olympics champion, Colonel Dame Kelly Holmes, who visited Malawi last October to take part in the Orbis Expeditions ‘Sport with a Purpose’ challenge aimed at raising funds for projects that promote good nutrition in communities, will be back for another expedition also in October. According to information posted on www.orbis-challenge.com, the aim is to raise funds to support the work of Malawi’s Open Arms and their commitment to preventing malnutrition in children.  During her…

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By Duncan Mlanjira After taking a well deserved rest following the tedious three stages 270km Al Marmoom Ultra desert marathon in Dubai last December, Malawi’s international mountain trail race specialist, Edson Kumwamba has been invited to race at the Sri Lanka Ultra X 250km race next month. According to srilankaultra-x.co, this is a series of stages of racing the 250km over 5 days that come in April. For 2019 it starts with Sri Lanka then Jordan in October and…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Imran Paya from Mbulumbudzi in Chiradzulu District is another ultra marathon specialist who is also making news in Cape Town, South Africa following the footprints of Edson Kumwamba. Paya came to surface this week when he contacted this reporter for contacts of Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) officials seeking for a letter of clearance to enable him register for one of South Africa’s famous ultra marathons — the 90km Comrades Race. He said he has been…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Ecobank has taken over sponsorship of the annual FAM Charity Shield at K12 million and this year’s proceeds from the tournament to be played at Kamuzu Stadium on March 30 and 31 will be channeled towards the fight against crimes being targeted at people with albinism. This was disclosed on Tuesday at FAM’s Mpira Village at Chiwembe where the new sponsor was unveiled and that the theme for the two-day tournament is ‘One Love —Stop The…

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By Duncan Mlanjira After the ‘Kugwetsa Khwekhwerere’ challenge — the 30.2kms saddle-less charity cycle up the Masasa-Golomoti escarpment route from Salima M5 road junction to the Blantyre-Lilongwe M1 Road — Stewart The Cyclist will undertake another daring adventure, the Kilimanjaro to Mulanje 2019 Charity Challenge from September 1-30. Together with his cycling colleague, John Moyenda, they shall start by hiking up the highest mountain in Africa, the Kilimanjaro in Tanzania (5,895m) before cycling from from there to Mulanje (2,301km),…

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By Chimthere Alfred, Chessam Publicist Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam), led by its president Susan Namangale, on Friday championed a tree planting exercise with students at Kamuzu Barracks Secondary School in Lilongwe and simultaneously donated two chess sets to the school’s club. The ambience at the campus was all green as Namangale grabbed the opportunity to inspire the students on the benefit of trees in relation to chess. “Chess require individuals to think moves ahead, which means that planning…

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By Duncan Mlanjira Stewart The Cyclist, Stewart Kambewa, who shot to fame when he, together with his colleague Kwame Kaira when they cycled 1,149km in 8 days from Nsanje to Chitipa in September 2016 to raise funds towards building boreholes in some communities of the country, has come up with another daring adventure on April 20 — to cycle saddle-less for 30.2kms and half of it uphill. And this time it is in aid of raising every day needs…

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