They hogged the limelight for outshining Brazilian Samba dancers, but 11 days into the Rio Olympic Games there is no hint that Malawi\u2019s five-member team will win a medal.<\/p>\n
Malawi\u2019s medal dream faded after runner, Tereza Master, finished on 98th place out of 133 participants in women\u2019s full marathon (42 km) on Sunday. Master clocked 2:48:34.<\/p>\n
Athletics Association of Malawi General Secretary, Frank Chitembeya, yesterday said he expected the experienced Master to perform better and finish around 40.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny way it is not easy reducing time at that level. Slowly, we will get there,\u201d Chitembeya said.<\/p>\n
Kenyan Jemima Jelagat won the race in 2:24:14. Some 141 athletes registered for the marathon but eight did not last the distance.<\/p>\n
Earlier, another Malawian swimmer, Brave Lifa, clocked 28.54 in 50m freestyle to finish on position 83 out of 85 athletes.<\/p>\n
Another swimmer, Ammara Pinto, too, had her time in the pool yesterday, completing 50m freestyle in 30:32 to emerge 71st out of 88 swimmers from across the world.<\/p>\n
Last week, Malawi\u2019s sole archer at the competition, Areneo David, lost to Italian Pasqualucci David, who is ranked third in the world.<\/p>\n
But according to a report from Malawi\u2019s Leader of Delegation, John Kaputa, the archer from Lilongwe has improved. Areneo is ranked 62nd in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cAreneo has performed better than all other competitions he has participated before. The athlete from Italy has been in the sport of archery for 13 years. He has a golden future if we invest in him,\u201d Kaputa was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
Another runner Kefasi Kasiteni Chitsala, who hogged the limelight at the Olympic Village when he gatecrashed a troope of Samba dances to display his silky dancing antics, will be in action tomorrow in 5000 metres.<\/p>\n
Chitsala, 22, is a self-styled best dancer at the Games, according to www.olympic.org<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cI am the greatest dancer in the Olympic Village. I would definitely win the gold. I have done it since I was very small, and we have some great traditional dances in our country, so I thought people needed to see them. People in Rio and Malawi are the same. We love to have fun,\u201d the Lilongwe athlete is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n Malawi has never produced a qualified athlete let alone won a medal at the Games due to, among others, lack of investment in Long Term Athlete Development, poor infrastructure and incentives.<\/p>\n The five athletes are competing at the Games on Olympic Solidarity\u2014a quota for a country that has not produced a qualified athlete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They hogged the limelight for outshining Brazilian Samba dancers, but 11 days into the Rio Olympic Games there is no hint that Malawi\u2019s five-member team will win a medal. Malawi\u2019s medal dream faded after runner, Tereza Master, finished on 98th place out of 133 participants in women\u2019s full marathon (42 km) on Sunday. Master clocked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30019,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30015\/revisions\/30019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}