SADC Youth Games

The Namibian men’s soccer team for the bi-annual SADC Zone VI Youth Games will have a final assessment camp starting Friday to Sunday at Soccer House.

The 20 players reports for camp on Thursday afternoon at the Namibia Football Association (NFA) Soccer House and the coach of the team is Timothy Tjongarero who will be assisted by Gerald Guther and Dawid Morgan as Team Manager.

This will be the final assessment camp and the next training camp will be held in November before the team’s departure for the Games in Lusaka, Zambia from 4-7 December 2012.

Namibia finished second overall at the Zone Six Youth Games which finished in Potchefstroom, South Africa last week. The hosts, South Africa were the overall winners with a total of 105 medals (53 gold, 39 silver and 13 bronze), followed by Namibia with 67 medals (16 gold, 2 silver and 29 bronze). Zimbabwe came third with 32 medals (nine gold, nine silver and 14 bronze). Botswana came fourth in the tournament, followed by Zambia, Lesotho, Mozambique, Angola, Swaziland and Malawi.

Namibia remained second on the medal standings at the SADC Zone 6 Games on December 10, with a total of 53 medals by December 10. This consisted of 14 gold, 18 silver and 21 bronze medals. South Africa were still way out in the lead with a total of 85 medals (45 gold, 29 silver and 11 bronze). Zimbabwe was lying third on 2 medals (5 gold, 6 silver and 11 bronze medals). Botswana was lying fourth, Lesotho fifth and Zambia sixth out of 10 countries competing at the Youth Games.

Namibia were lying second behind South Africa on the medal standings after competition on December 9 at the SADC Zone Six Youth Games. South Africa was leading with a total of 56 medals (28 gold, 21 silver and seven bronze), followed by Namibia with a total of 39 medals (12 gold, 13 silver and 14 bronze). Zimbabwe were third with a total of 14 (four gold, four silver and six bronze medals).

Athletics

On December 9, Dantago Gurirab won a gold medal in the men’s 200m in a time of 21,47 seconds, Chesum Cloete finished fifth in the final in a time of 21,96.

Namibia’s medal tally moved up to 10 at the Zone Six Youth Games on Monday, with Namibia’s athletes and swimmers leading the way with some outstanding performances. After Monday’s events Namibia had won one gold, five silver and four bronze medals to lie second overall behind South Africa.

Long distance runner Lavinia Haitope won Namibia’s first gold medal at the Games when she convincingly won the women’s 5 000m in a time of 17 minutes 27,48 seconds. She finished five seconds ahead of the second placed athlete.

Max Siedentopf won Namibia’s first medal at the SADC Zone 6 Youth Games when he came second in the 50m breaststroke final. In the process he broke his own for the fourth time over the past week. Siedentopf has been in great form and twice broke Jorg Lindemeier’s Namibian record of 32,39 seconds at the African Senior Championships in Johannesburg last week. In the heats he set a new record of 32,36 and in the final he came sixth in a new record time of 32,08.

Namibia’s U20 women’s soccer team got off to a winning start at the Zone Six U20 Youth Games in Potchefstroom, South Africa, when they beat Zambia 2-1 on Thursday.
Two goals in quick succession in the first half by Emmerencia Fredericks gave Namibia a 2-0 lead, but Zambia fought back to score just before the halftime break.

Namibia’s men’s soccer team drew 2-all against Swaziland in their opening match on Thursday. Namibia’s goals were scored by Imperth Isaacks and Eusebio Fredericks, but they suffered a setback when Wesley Katjiteo was redcarded for two fouls.

South Africa were the overall winners of the SADC Zone VI Youth Games which took place in Windhoek from June 26 to July 5.
They won 23 gold, 14 silver and 10 bronze medals for a total of 47 medals to finish well ahead of Zimbabwe and Namibia.

The Botswana men's soccer team at the Zone VI Youth Games secured the gold medal after defeating a gutsy South Africa 2-1 at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Windhoek, Namibia on July 5. The tie required extra-time for the medals to be decided.

The Zambian men's soccer team secured third place and the bronze medal at the Zone VI Youth Games soccer tournament, after defeating hosts Namibia 2-1 in the third place play-off game at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Windhoek on July 5.