Malawi’s women’s national football team, the Scorchers, have advanced to the next round of qualification for the 2028 Olympic Games after a commanding 7-0 victory over Zimbabwe in the second leg of their tie at the National Sports Stadium. Holding a 2-0 advantage from the first leg in Lilongwe, Malawi completed a comprehensive 9-0 aggregate […]
Malawi’s Women’s National Football Team coach Lovemore Fazili has shaken up his squad ahead of a crucial Olympic qualifying clash with Zimbabwe, drafting in four fresh faces for the Scorchers as they prepare for next month’s showdown with the Mighty Warriors. Fazili unveiled his provisional squad for the 2028 Olympic qualifiers at Bingu National Stadium […]
Malawian athletes who represented the country at the first ever first-ever Pan African Special Olympic Games in Cairo, Egypt have shined and made the country proud after winning a total of thirteen medals. Among the winners is Desire Namaona who won a gold medal in the 100 metres female category beating three other contestants namely […]
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 […]
Malawian tennis star in Special Olympics, Mphatso Chiphwanya, is back from Dominican Republic with two silver medals. Chiphwanya landed through Chileka International Airport on Monday and told journalists that things went on very well despite poor preparations. “Everything went well. We played very well that’s why we got these silver medals,” said Chiphwanya. The athlete […]
Retired British middle distance athlete, Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, arrived in Malawi for a series of sporting and charitable events and on Saturday, October 5 she visited Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, held a sporting masterclass at the College of Medicine Sports Complex to advance issues that are dear to her — maternal health minority sports. From there, Holmes attended […]
Malawi Under-20 national football team has been earmarked for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after an impressive performance at the Cosafa tournament recently. Expatriate coach Ronny van Geneugden, who accompanied the team to Kitwe in Zambia, said he was optimistic that the junior Flames would go places should they be nurtured. Malawi national team failed to progress to […]
Malawi has won the bid to host a meeting for Secretary Generals of Association of National Olympic Committees in Africa (ANOCA) in October next year after beating Tunisia in a decisive vote in Cape Verde. Administration Manager for Malawi Olympic Committee (MOC) Naomi Chinatu, who represented the association at this year’s meeting in Cape Verde […]
Malawi’s sole ambassador at the on-going Paralympic Games, Taonere Banda, has been disqualified. According to coach George Luhanga,Taonere was due to compete in the 1,500 metres heats on Thursday in the Games that are taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Authorities disqualified Banda in the heat one of round one in the event. It […]
Malawi ‘s only representative at this year’s Paralympic games Taonere Banda has promised to bring home gold medal from Rio, Brazil. Speaking before departure at Chileka in Blantyre, Banda flanked by her Coach George Luhanga and the country’s Paralympic body President James Chiutsi said Malawians should expect nothing less than gold medal from Brazil. “I […]
Malawi will make history as it is set to participate for the first time at Paralympic Games to be held in Rio 2016 from 7-18 September. Malawi will be represented by 1,500m partial visually impaired female athlete Tionele Banda from the country’s Central Region lakeshore district of Nkhotakota. Malawi Paralympic President James Chiutsi said the country […]
Four of five of Malawi’s representatives at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games have returned home after putting up a spirited performance despite not getting nowhere near winning medals. Long distance runner Tereza Master, who made a national record in the marathon, two swimmers Brave Lifa and Amara Pinto and David Areneo of archery, returned home […]
Malawi’s marathon athlete Tereza Master has made history after breaking the national record in women’s marathon at Rio Olympic Games on Saturday. Master finished the grueling 42.125km event, which is the epitome of the Olympic Games, in 2:48:36 hours on position 98 0ut of 141 athletes who entered the race. Malawi Olympic Committee (MOC) President […]
A 20-year old Nkhota-kota based visually impaired Taonere Banda will represent Malawi at the fourth coming Paralympics games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Malawi Paralympics Committee (MPC) has disclosed. During the event, MPC also unveiled Prisca Kachule and Alinafe Puwa who are among the four athletes expected to represent the country at another Paralympics tournament […]
Japanese Ambassador Shuichikiro Nioshioka has appealed to Malawi to groom athletes in judo for 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. Ambassador Nioshioka made the appeal on the sidelines of a donation of sports equipment to Judo Association of Malawi on Tuesday in Lilongwe. He said Japanese Prime Minister Abe has launched programme to promote sports among the youths. […]
A United Kingdom (UK) based Organization of People Living with disability has promised to build a Paralympics stadium in Malawi. The organization’s Director Annie Wafula Strike disclosed the development during a meeting she had with Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Patricia Kaliati when she visited UK. The organization which works mostly in Kenya, advocates […]
Ahead of hosting the K28 million Standard Bank Knock-out Cup final involving Silver Strikers and Azam Tigers, Standard Bank Limited have taken another big social responsibility, donating sports equipment worth K1 million to Special Olympics Malawi. The donation was made Friday, August 29, 2014 at Kamuzu Institute of Sports, where Special Olympics was hosting a […]
Mobile network service provider TNM has donated K1 million towards the organization of Special Olympics Malawi (SOM) games taking place in Lilongwe from today. The donation is in response to an appeal from SOM for financial assistance towards managing the event which has attracted a field of 250 athletes from Malawi’s three regions. Special Olympics […]