Ugandan 19-year-old boxer Teddy Nakimuli won bronze at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Saturday.

She progressed to the semi-finals with a walkover after Sara Haghighat-Joo from Sierra Leone failed to make the grade in the women’s 48kg-50kg (Light Flyweight).

However, Teddy lost to Northern Ireland boxer Carly McNaul by unanimous victory on all five judges’ scorecards.

It will be McNaul’s second successive Commonwealth final, following her silver medal success at Gold Coast 2018.

Nakimuli’s bronze is Uganda’s fourth medal at the 2022 games after Peruth Chemutai’s bronze in women’s 3000m steeplechase, Jacob Kiplimo, and Victor Kiplangat’s Gold medals in the men’s 10,000m and men’s marathon respectively.

Uganda Boxing Federation (UBF) president Moses Muhangi has made the 12 successful candidates eligible for the upcoming AFBC elections.

In a communique from AFBC interim board members; Pearl Dlamini and Elise Seignolle, the 12 candidates were revealed.

The letter confirming the candidates was addressed to the AFBC Interim Board members, AFBC national federations and the respective candidates.

“This is to inform you the BIIU Interim Nomination Unit and the IBA Ethics Committee completed the vetting check of the candidates to the upcoming AFBC Elections to be held at the AFBC extraordinary Congress on 16 July 2022,” the letter read.

Muhangi is among the three candidates that were nominated by the BIIU Interim Nomination Unit.

The other two are Cameroon’s Bertrand Mendouga and Fazil Ferhat Abdelnour from Algeria.

Eleven candidates are eligible for the Presidential Elections according to the decision of the IBA Ethics committee.

The 11 include; Irene Ntelamo (Botswana), Eric Ndayishimiye (Burundi), Alpha Amadou Balde (Guinea), Nabil Hilmi (Morocco), Wissam Zoubida (Morocco), Issoufou Abdou Mallam (Nigeria), Azamia Omo Agege (Nigeria), Cecil Siyabulela Nkwalo (South Africa) and Senegalese Anta Gueye.

The candidates are allowed to start their campaigning which must be conducted in accordance with AFBC Regulations on congress and election adopted by the AFBC Interim Board.

All the candidates for election to an office on the Board must be present for that election at the Congress during which the election occurs (article 26.1 of the AFBC Constitution).

“The list of candidates may be amended or completed at a later stage once the Interim nomination. Unit and the International Boxing Association (IBA) Ethics Committee will have conducted additional verifications with respect to certain candidates, or if ineligible candidates appeal the decision of ineligibility,” the communication adds.

Uganda’s National Boxing Team, The Bombers, on Monday entered a residential camp at Forest Park in Buloba.

The team of six boxers is preparing for the forthcoming 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

At the games, Boxing will be held at the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull between July 27th and August 7th, 2022.

The team which includes one female in Teddy Nakimuli is the same squad that represented the country at the Mount Kilimanjaro championship in Tanzania in May.

The Late Zebra Ssenyange’s son, SsenyangeJunior, is part of the team that will be captained by Joshua Tukamuhebwa.

Jonah Kyobe, Owen Kibira, and Yusuf Nkobeza are the other members of the Bombers squad.

The side is coached by Patrick Lihanda alongside Lawrence Kalyango and Abdul Tebazalwa.

This team was selected from the Boxing Champions League tournament, an initiative by the current Boxing Federation Leadership.

It’s a whole new team from the one that represented Uganda at the Olympics.

Team Uganda

• Jonah Kyobe (Featherweight)
• Joshua Tukamuhebwa (Light Welter)
• Owen Kibira (Welterweight)
• Isaac Senyange Jr (Light Middleweight)
• Yusuf Nkobeza (Middleweight)
• Nakimuli Teddy (Flyweight)