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Paris 2024: Cindy Ngamba makes history by becoming first Boxing Refugee Team member to qualify for Olympics

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Cindy Ngamba is the first ever Boxing Refugee Team member to qualify for the Olympics. She beat Kazakh Valentina Khalova in the women's 75kg weight class quarter-finals at the Road to Paris 1st World Qualification Tournament in Busto Arsizio in Italy. Ngamba moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 11.

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Paris 2024: Cindy Ngamba makes history by becoming first Boxing Refugee Team member to qualify for Olympics

"Cindy Ngamba has made history to become the first ever refugee boxer to earn qualification for the Olympic Games after she won her quarter-final at the Road to Paris 1st World Qualification Tournament in Busto Arsizio in Italy. The Cameroon-born fighter, who now resides in the UK, is one of 70 IOC Refugee Athlete Scholarship-holders and stopped the Kazakh Valentina Khalova to qualify."

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