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Neema first Kenyan to enter 2024 Paralympic ring
Stency Neema trains at the Paris Paralympic Village on August 25, 2024.
Photo credit: Ayumba Ayodi | Nation Media Group
What you need to know:
- Neema qualified the 2024 Paris Paralympics after a gamble paid off when she attended the African Taekwondo Championships in February in Dakar, Senegal.
- She was declared the winner and handed the ticket in under-52 category without throwing a kick after her opponent from Egypt failed to show up.
Stency Neema is fired up and ready make history as the first Kenyan to participate in taekwondo at the Paris Paralympic Games.
Incidentally, Neema will be the first Kenyan to taste action in Paris, Games, taking on the 2023 world silver medallist Salma Ali Abd Al Moneem Hassan from Egypt in women’s round of 16 under-52 kilogrammes K44 at Grand Palais at 11.53am Thursday.
