{"id":75419,"date":"2019-03-11T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T07:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=75419"},"modified":"2019-03-11T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T07:45:52","slug":"aam-proceeds-with-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/aam-proceeds-with-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"AAM proceeds with camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75423\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chatsala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chatsala-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chatsala-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chatsala-45x35.jpg 45w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chatsala.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CALLED UP FOR CAMP TRAINING\u2014Chitsala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 20 athletes are today expected to start camping in readiness for the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldsmarathons.com\/marathon\/iaaf-world-cross-country-championship-aarhus-2019?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjpjkBRDRARIsAKv-0O3KxjyX9i6JCxxNUsJN_ThEDU0XIwrj_czDbB3EMKUNaoSe45NF50QaAqprEALw_wcB\">World Cross Country Championship<\/a> set for March 30 in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) has gone ahead with the camp training despite facing funding challenges.<\/p>\n<p>AAM General Secretary, Frank Chitembeya, said they would use part of their grant from world athletics governing body, International Association of Athletics Federations (Iaaf), to kick-start the training session.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAs we are waiting for major stakeholders to release funds for the camp, we felt it wise to use part of our grant from Iaaf to get started,\u201d<\/em> Chitembeya said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said they were racing against time and it was important to starting camping now to prepare the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Chitembeya said AAM was aware of the effects of poor preparations on the performance of athletes, hence the decision to commence preparations in time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe want our athletes to improve their time and aim at breaking records. Returning from competitions without medals does not please us at all,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full list of athletes and officials to go into camp is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>100metres (m)<\/strong>\u2014Stain<\/p>\n<p>Lifa , Gift Kawale, Donald Chavula.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 0 0 m <\/strong>\u2014 Khumbo Makwakwa, Stain Lifa and Golden Gunde.<\/p>\n<p><strong>400m<\/strong>\u2014Golden Gunde, Dalitso Gunde, Frank Chitembeya Junior, Afali Gomiwa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 0 0 m <\/strong>\u2014 Benedicto Makumba.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1500m<\/strong>\u2014Moneyi Chingaipe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5000m<\/strong>\u2014Chancy Master, Mirriam Kachingwe, Mudana Phiri, Cec\u00edlia Mhango, Abina Tchinga, Grevazio Mpani, Jameson Tonde.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10,000m<\/strong>\u2014Kefas Kasiteni Chitsala, Doris Fisha and Mphatso Nandolo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full marathon (42.195 kilometres)<\/strong>\u2014Happy Ndacha Mcherenje, McDonald Maganizo and Doris Fisha and Hosea Chaola.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Head of technical<\/strong>\u2014 Emmanuel Mlonya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long distance runners\u2019 coaches<\/strong>\u2014Emmanuel Mlonya and Leonald Dzanja<\/p>\n<p><strong>Middle distance runners\u2019 coach<\/strong>\u2014Francis Munthali <strong>Sprinters\u2019 coaches<\/strong>\u2014Ken Dzekedzeke and Precious Chigoneka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: About 20 athletes are today expected to start camping in readiness for the World Cross Country Championship set for March 30 in Denmark. Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) has gone ahead with the camp training despite facing funding challenges. AAM General Secretary, Frank Chitembeya, said they would use part of their grant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75419","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=75419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75424,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75419\/revisions\/75424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}