Christine Ongare (born 26 November 1993[1]) is a Kenyan boxer competing in the featherweight division. She represented Kenya at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia winning a bronze medal thus making her the first Kenyan woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal in boxing.[2]

Career

Christine Ongare participated in football and acrobatics before taking up boxing[3] in 2011 in Kenya's Kariobangi Estate[4]

Christine Ongare competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. She was seeded for the featherweight tournament and lost to Northern Ireland's Carly McNaul.[5] As of February 2020, she had qualified to represent Kenya at the since postponed 2020 Summer Olympics after beating Uganda's Catherine Nanziri at the 2020 African Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament in Dakar, Senegal.

Personal life

Born to a single mother in Eastlands, Nairobi, Ongare herself became a mother at 12 years of age.[6]

Appearances and honours

  • 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships[7]
  • 2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, Scotland
  • 2018 Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Australia[8]
  • 2019 Africa Games, Morocco[9][10]
  • 2020 African Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Dakar, Senegal

References

  1. ↑ "Christine ONGARE – Olympic | Kenya". International Olympic Committee. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  2. ↑ pm, Ezra Manyibe on 29 February 2020-8:17 (29 February 2020). "Boxing Queen Beats Ugandan to Make Historic Olympics Qualification". Kenyans.co.ke. Retrieved 27 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "Kenyan boxing champ who became mother at just 12 narrates painful journey to stardom". www.msn.com. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  4. ↑ App, Daily Nation. "History-girl Ongare dreams big". mobile.nation.co.ke. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Boxing | Athlete Profile: Christine ONGARE - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games". results.gc2018.com. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Moto Lewinski (2 March 2020). "Pregnant at age 12, Christine Ongare...Extraordinary Boxer story". YouTube. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  7. ↑ (PDF). 22 May 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120522151501/http://88.85.4.2/pdf/000085/C75WW51.PDF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "Yego chokes again as Ongare settles for boxing bronze". Daily Nation. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  9. ↑ "KENYA'S FEMALE BOXERS AIM TO STEAL THE SHOW". Boxing Africa. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  10. ↑ "Schedule & Results". Africans Games Rabat 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.