Sierra Leonean Female Boxer Zainab Keita has on Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 won Sierra Leone First Gold Medal in the ongoing AFBC Zone ll Boxing Championship at the Bintumani International Conference Hall in Freetown in a 70kg bout.
Zainab Keita put up an impressive performance against her revival Ndeye D. Ndiaye of Senegal.
After the fourth round, Zainab Keita was declared the Winner as she won Sierra Leone’s first medal in the ongoing African Zone II Boxing Championships hosted in Sierra Leone.
Zainab said that it is not strange for her to give laurels to her motherland.
Six years ago, she won a 64kg fight in Guinea, and replicated same in 2017 in Liberia against a Cuban. She fought in the quarter finals of the All African Games in Morocco in 2019.
The Championships will end today Friday, April 8, 2022.
By Desmond Tunde Coker