Kabange Mupopo
Kabange Mupopo (born 21 September 1992) is a Zambian sprinter and football player, won Gold in African games September 2015. She is the striker and captain of the Zambia women's national football team, Shepolopolo.
 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 - Day Three | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kabange Mupopo | ||
| Date of birth | 21 September 1992 | ||
| Place of birth | Zambia | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Green Buffaloes | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| Green Buffaloes | |||
| National team | |||
| 2014– | Zambia | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals) | |||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Athletics | ||
Representing  Zambia
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| African Championships | ||
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2014 Marrakech | 400 metres
{{Medal|Gold|2016 Durban|[[400 metres}} |
| All-Africa Games | ||
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2015 Brazzaville | 400 metres |
Football career
Mupopo started playing association football as an 11-year-old, inspired by her brother.[1] She played for Green Buffaloes F.C. and the Zambia women's national football team; as team captain, she led Zambia to the 2014 African Women's Championship tournament, where they were eliminated in the group stage.[1][2]
Athletics
Mupopo picked up athletics in 2014, running 53.44 for 400 metres in her first official meeting.[1][3] She represented Zambia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where she ran 53.09 and was eliminated in the semi-finals.[1][4] In August, she took silver in 51.21 at the African Championships in Marrakech, breaking the Zambian record; she lost the gold to Nigeria's Folashade Abugan, who ran the same time, in a photo-finish.[5] Mupopo qualified to represent Africa at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup, also in Marrakech, where she placed fourth and improved her national record to 50.87.[1][4] Mupopo received an 18-month athletics scholarship from the Zambian Olympic Committee in 2015, leading her to concentrate on athletics and not football.[6][7]
Mupopo debuted in the IAAF Diamond League in Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix in May 2015, placing seventh in 51.88.[8] In July 2015 she ran 50.86 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, improving her national record by one-hundredth of a second.[4] She was selected for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.[9]
She is representing Zambia at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. On Saturday 13 August she qualified to the semi-finals of the women's 400m where she was placed in lane six of heat seven and finished second clocking 51:76 seconds behind Jamaican Shericka Jackson, who was only three mili-seconds faster.[10] She became one of two athletes still standing from Team Zambia in Brazil after five compatriots all tumbled in the preliminary rounds of the respective events.[11]
References
External links
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- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1 at line 4515: attempt to index field 'date_names' (a nil value).
- ↑ Mupopo sprints to semis], Zambia Daily Mail, 14 August 2016
- ↑ Spotlight on ‘Bo Jackson’ Mupopo in Rio, LusakaTimes, 14 August 2016
