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Rwanda: Meet Athletes Representing Rwanda At Paris 2024 Video games

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Rwandan athletes are in France, since July 6, gearing up for the highly-anticipated Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, scheduled for July 26 to August 11.

Rwanda will probably be represented by eight athletes on the 2024 Summer season Olympics, together with 5 girls and three males throughout 4 sports activities disciplines–cycling, athletics, swimming, and fencing.

The Olympic workforce commenced their pre-training camp on Monday, July 8, with athletes coaching at varied venues.

Regardless of Rwanda’s constant participation within the Olympic Video games since 1984, a medal of any variety stays a dream for the nation’s athletes.

And their dream continues with Paris turning into the following high for the Summer season Olympic Video games.

Meet Rwandan Athletes at Paris 2024 Video games:

Biking

Eric Manizabayo (Males’s Highway Race)

Date of Start: August 28, 1997

Place of Start: Nyabihu district

Membership: Benediction Membership

Class: Highway Race on August 3

Venue: Pont d’ Iéna

How he made it to Paris 2024: Wildcard

Diane Ingabire: (Girls’s Highway Race and Particular person Time Trial)

Date of Start: July 17, 2001

Place of Start: Nyabihu district

Present Staff: Canyon//SRAM Technology workforce, Germany

Coaching Base: Barcelona, Spain

Occasions: ITT on July 27 and Highway Race on August 4.

Venue: Pont d’Iéna

How she made in to Paris 2024: Wildcard

Jazilla Mwamikazi (Girls’s Mountain Bike)

Date of Start: September 8, 2004

Place of Start: Rwamagana district

Staff: Ndabaga Biking Staff

Occasion: Mountain Bike Racing, July 28

Venue: Élancourt Hill

How she made it to Paris 2024: Wildcard

Athletics

Yves Nimubona (Males’s 10,000m)

Date of Start: August 15, 1998

Place of Start: Nyamasheke district

Present Staff: Tuscany Coaching Camp, Italy

Occasion: 10,000m, August 2.

Venue: Stade de France

How he made it to Paris 2024: Wildcard

Clementine Mukandanga (Girls’s Full Marathon)

Date of Start: December 8, 1985

Place of Start: Ngoma district

Present Staff: G.S. Orecchiella Garfagnana, Italy

Occasion: Full Marathon, August 11.

Venue: Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides

How she made it to Paris 2024: She achieved the required “Minima” time of two:26:50 on the 39 Firenze Marathon in December 2023 with a time of two:25:54, the fourth quickest within the occasion’s historical past and a private greatest, bettering on her earlier file set in Florence in 2022.

Mukandanga is the one Rwandan athlete within the Olympic Staff who certified for the Paris 2024 Video games.

Swimming

Peyre Mitilla Oscar Cyusa (Males’s 100m Butterfly)

Date of Start: April 27, 2005

Place of Start: France

Present Residence: Marseille

Occasion: 100m Butterfly, August 2 (Semi-finals and Remaining on August 3)

Venue: Paris La Défense Enviornment

How he made it to Paris 2024: Wildcard