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GEARED FOR REGION 5



               2022 LILONGWE GAMES

































              Judo athletes preparing for the 2022 Lilongwe games.



               227 athletes will represent Team Malawi at the African   10 countries, namely Malawi, Mozam-
               Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Under-20           bique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho,
               Youth Games which will take place from 2nd to 11th      eSwatini, Angola, Namibia, Botswana
               December 2022 in Lilongwe.                              and South Africa will compete for
                                                                       regional honors at the games while
               Malawi will compete in 10 sporting codes, namely foot-  Mauritius and Seychelles are coming in
               ball  (boys and girls),  netball,  volleyball, basketball,   as guest countries.
               athletics, Taekwondo, Judo, Boxing, swimming and
               tennis. E-sport will also take place at the games on a   The under-17 boys football matches
               trial basis (exhibition) and Malawi will participate in the   will be used as qualifying matches for
               activities.                                             the 2023 TotalEnergies African Youth
                                                                       championship, which will take place in
               Team Malawi held its first camp in June in Blantyre,     2023, while the under 17 basketball
               where 400 athletes across the country were assessed     matches will be used as qualifying
               and selected by coaches. The second camping session     matches for the 2023 Afro basketball
               took place in September in Lilongwe and, after the      championship which will also take
               second camping session in the capital city, the athletes   place in 2023.
               were involved in residential camping, where they were
               monitored by their coaches, Malawi School Sports        During last year’s Region 5 under-20
               Association (MASSA) and o cials from Malawi Nation-     youth games in Lesotho, Team Malawi
               al Council of Sports.                                   managed to win 29 medals (2 gold, 10
                                                                       silver and 17 bronze) which was a
               227 athletes and 55 o cials will, on 27 November,       record-breaking performance consid-
               depart for Lilongwe for the games before the opening    ering how the Team had performed in
               ceremony,  which  will  take  place  on  2nd  December   previous years.
               2022 at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe.






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