Rwanda’s Jovia Umunezero has won a silver medal in the individual Karate Kumite category -59kgs on Friday of the 2018 African Youth Games taking place in Algiers, Algeria.
She was the only female karate athlete representing Rwanda in the 3rd edition of the continental youth championship, which started on July 18 and will be concluded on July 28.
Umunezero who has won her first continental medal in her career started the games on a good note winning the preliminary fight against Swart Mayvonne Neeldje of Nambia.
In the next round, she beat Raad Selma from the host nation, Algeria. However in the final she lost to Zahira Fatima Chajal from Morocco in the kumite 59kilograms category.
Her performance is a plus to Rwanda which now has three medals; two silver medals and a bronze.
Rwanda won the first sliver when the U18 female beach volleyball team came to finish second behind Mozambique in the final.
While the bronze came from the individual Kumite male 61kg category, U18 Halifa Niyitanga on Thursday made Rwanda proud to overcome OBISSA DAVID of Gabon.
Medal Table for Rwanda count: 3 medals
Silver: Women’s Beach Volleyball Team
Silver: Karate – Individual Kumite – Female Category -59Kgs
Bronze: Karate – Individual Kumite – Male Category – 61Kgs