Full name Kabange Mupopo Place of birth Zambia Name Kabange Mupopo | Playing position Role Football player Years Team Position Midfielder | |
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Date of birth (1992-09-21) 21 September 1992 (age 23) | ||
Kabange mupopo zam london 2017 iaaf world championships 400m heats
Kabange Mupopo (born 21 September 1992) is a Zambian sprinter and football player, won Gold in African games September 2015
Contents
- Kabange mupopo zam london 2017 iaaf world championships 400m heats
- Zambia s kabange mupopo after finishing 7th in 2017 world champs 400m final
- Biography
- References
Zambia s kabange mupopo after finishing 7th in 2017 world champs 400m final
Biography
Mupopo started playing association football as an 11-year-old, inspired by her brother. 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.
Mupopo picked up athletics in the spring of 2014, running 53.44 for 400 metres in her first official meeting. She represented Zambia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where she ran 53.09 and was eliminated in the semi-finals. 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. 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. Mupopo received an 18-month athletics scholarship from the Zambian Olympic Committee in 2015, leading her to concentrate on athletics and not football.
Mupopo debuted in the IAAF Diamond League in Doha in May 2015, placing seventh in 51.88. In July 2015 she ran 50.86 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, improving her national record by one-hundredth of a second. She was selected for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.