Kabange Mupopo

Kabange Mupopo
Mupopo in 2017
Personal information
Full name Kabange Mupopo
Date of birth (1992-09-21) 21 September 1992
Place of birth Lusaka, Zambia[1]
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2]
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Green Buffaloes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Green Buffaloes
International career
2012– Zambia
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Kabange Mupopo
Medal record
athletics
Representing  Zambia
All-Africa Games
Gold medal – first place2015 Brazzaville400 m
African Championships
Gold medal – first place2016 Durban400 m
Silver medal – second place2014 Marrakesh400 m

Kabange Mupopo (born 21 September 1992) is a Zambian sprinter and women's professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. She won gold in the 400 metres at the 2015 All-Africa Games and represented Zambia in football at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Mupopo started playing football at 11 with her brother's guidance.[3] 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.[3][4]

Mupopo picked up athletics in the spring of 2014, running 53.44 for 400 metres in her first official meeting.[3][5] She represented Zambia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where she ran 53.09 and was eliminated in the semi-finals.[3][6] In August, she took silver in 51.21 at the African Championships in Marrakesh, breaking the Zambian record; she lost the gold to Nigeria's Folashade Abugan, who ran the same time, in a photo-finish.[7] Mupopo qualified to represent Africa at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup, also in Marrakesh, where she placed fourth and improved her national record to 50.87.[3][6] Mupopo received an 18-month athletics scholarship from the Zambian Olympic Committee in 2015, leading her to concentrate on athletics and not football.[8][9]

Mupopo debuted in the IAAF Diamond League in Doha in May 2015, placing seventh in 51.88.[10] In July 2015 she ran 50.86 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, improving her national record by one-hundredth of a second.[6] She was selected for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.[11]

On 3 July 2024, Mupopo was called up to the Zambia squad for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Eurosport profile
  2. ↑ Rio 2016 bio Archived 25 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mupopo: Football is my passion, I enjoy athletics too". Confederation of African Football. 28 October 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Zulu, Cecilia (16 October 2014). "She-polopolo cry". Zambia Daily Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Kunda, Robinson (19 September 2014). "Mupopo qualifies for Diamond League". Zambia Daily Mail. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 Kabange Mupopo at Tilastopaja (subscription required)
  7. ↑ Mulkeen, Jon (12 August 2014). "Redemption for Makwala at African Championships". International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "Zambia: Kabange Gives Tips to Shepolopolo". Times of Zambia. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Shepolopolo captain Kabange gets NOC scholarship". Times of Zambia. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Mupopo in shock defeat". Zambia Daily Nation. 17 May 2015. Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "2015 Beijing Provisional Entry List". IAAF. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  12. ↑ Zambia WNT [@Copper_Queens] (3 July 2024). "COPPER QUEENS FINAL SQUAD FOR OLYMPICS" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 July 2024 – via X (formerly Twitter).
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