Boxer Cindy Ngamba secures first medal for Olympic refugee team with quarterfinal win

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Boxer Cindy Ngamba secures first medal for Olympic ******** team with quarterfinal win

Boxer Cindy Ngamba clinched the first medal of any kind for the Olympic ******** team Sunday at North Paris Arena, guaranteeing herself at least a bronze with a win against France’s Davina Michel in the women’s 75-kilogram quarterfinals.

The Olympics do not hold bronze medal bouts in boxing, so Ngamba will receive a medal win or lose in the semifinals. She fights Panama’s Atheyna Bibeichi Bylon next on Thursday, when boxing moves to Roland Garros.

“It means the world to me to be the first ******** team member to win a medal,” Ngamba said. “I’m just human, like any other ********. There are refugees all around the world.”

Ngamba, 25, was born in Cameroon and moved to the ******* Kingdom when she was 11. Ngamba, who is gay, cannot return home because homosexuality is outlawed in Cameroon. She now lives in Bolton, a town in Greater Manchester, England, and trains with Great Britain boxing.

With her win over Davina Michel (FRA), boxer

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(EOR) has just made history by guaranteeing a first-ever Olympic medal for the IOC

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Ngamba served as the flag bearer for the ******** team, which was created in 2015 and debuted at the 2016 Rio Games, at the opening ceremony along with taekwondo athlete Yahya Al Ghotany.

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******** boxer Cindy Ngamba wins Olympic medal – ‘She’s an inspiration to us all’

Ngamba is part of the 37-athlete ******** team in Paris after being introduced to the International Olympic Committee’s ******** program during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has repeatedly been denied British citizenship despite claiming three national titles in separate weight classes and receiving support from GB Boxing, the sport’s governing body, in her applications to the Home Office.

“I want to say to all the refugees all around the world and refugees that are not athletes and mainly humans around the world that you have to keep on working hard, keep on believing in yourself,” Ngamba said. “You can achieve whatever you put your mind to.”

China’s Qian Li and Australia’s Caitlin Parker will ****** in the other semifinal bout.

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