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Kenya will play host to the first ever East Africa Armature Wrestling Championships as teams vie for regional supremacy.
The first ever East Africa Armature Wrestling Championships has been slated for Kenya from July 6-7 2024 at the Sports View Hotel, Kasarani and Strathmore University.
Kenya Armature Wrestling Association (KAWA) Secretary General (SG) Erick Walucho said that six countries will battle it out for the regional's supremacy in the freestyle wrestling on Saturday and beach wrestling on Sunday.
"150 wrestlers from six countries are here already training for this weekend's showdown where we will have freestyle wrestling at Sports View Hotel on Saturday and beach wrestling at Strathmore university on Sunday. Our young ones also will compete in the under 15, 17 and 20-year-old categories and then we will have the seniors also," said Walucho.
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The regional showpiece event will be graced by Vincent Aka who is the United World Wrestling (UWW) Development Officer in charge of Africa.
"Kenya is a beautiful place with amazing athletes in wrestling, so far what I have seen here is great. This event also sends a statement to the rest of Africa as we all yearn to develop wrestling and vie for gold medals in international competitions such as the Olympics," said Aka.
Hosts Kenya will battle it out with neighbours Uganda and Tanzania as Burundi, Mauritius and Sudan also seek the regional's top honours in Armature wrestling.
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KAWA has also confirmed that notable continental stars will grace the event, led by Uganda's Harriet Akite, who won a gold medal during the second edition of the National Olympics Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) beach games that were held at the Buntwani Beach, Malindi in February this year.
Another notable name will be African champion Kanapetradu Simran from Mauritius and African silver medallist Niyonkuru Gloria Lynca from Burundi.
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