Nambala getting ready for Paris Paralympics 

• By Michael Uugwanga 

THE country’s top paralympic sprinter Johannes Nambala, currently in the Netherlands on a long training camp, has said that he is ready for the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, scheduled for August 28 to September 08.

Nambala has a good memory in France, a country where he won his first major individual accolades, the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Championship gold medal win in the 400m T13 in Lyon, and to date, he is still the only paralympic athlete to win a world championship title.

Nambala (33) is also a two-time silver medalist winner at the Paralympic Games, having won two silver medals in the 100m T13 and the 400m T13 at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and also won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games in the 400m T13.

Besides the success in Lyon, Nambala has also won eight medals from World Championships between 2013 and 2019, which includes two gold medals, four silver medals and two bronze medals, while at the African Games in 2015, he won a gold medal in the 400m T13.

Speaking to Confidente this week, following his disappointment at the Kobe World Championship in Japan in May this year, he said he has put behind the disappointment in Japan, focusing firmly on Paris.

Nambala is being mentored by renowned top coach Letu Hamhola.

“I am currently in a training camp in the Netherlands, as I am getting ready for the Paralympic Games in Paris. The World Championship in Kobe was not good for me because I got disqualified in the 400m T13, and it was my fifth world championship appearance and I was happy for that, to have taken part in the competition.  I am now looking forward to Paris, and it is now time to correct all the mistakes and do what I do best,” said Nambala.