ATHLETICS

 Athletics is a category of competitive sports that include running, leaping, throwing, and walking. Track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking are the most frequent athletics competitions.According to a Goggle Athletics analysis, 38.4% of all athletes are women, while 61.6% are males. The average age of a working athlete is 36 years old. The most frequent ethnicity of athletes is White (72.8%), followed by Black or African American (8.9%), Hispanic or Latino (7.5%), and Unknown (6.8%).

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 Athletics is one of the most popular sports not just in Namibia, but across the world.Namibia is well-known as one of the countries with athletes who compete in numerous global competitions and have achieved remarkable success.According to an article from thenamibian about A sudden rise of these two teenagers' performances around the country and around the world, with no idea who they were or where they came from. They've made international headlines. They are the youngest sprinters Namibia has ever produced, and they have excelled. Thanks to the Kavango East Regional Namibia Schools Sports Union leadership for identifying them through school sport activities. Christine Katiku Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, both from the Kavango East Region,who were both 18 years at that time.

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Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi's achievements in the 200m final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics surprised the globe and kindled a nation's excitement. With Mboma's silver medal,becoming the first ever Namibian woman to win a women's Olympic medal and breaking the world under-20 and African senior record and Masilingi placed sixth in the 200m, she also achieved the second-fastest world under-18 and third-fastest world under-20 times in 400m history,. the Namibian teenagers have also established themselves as the future of women's sprinting.

According to an article from New era The Namibian National Olympic Committee announced in July 2021 that Masilingi and fellow Namibian sprinter Christine Mboma would be unable to compete in the 400 m event at the Tokyo Olympics due to World Athletics rules implemented in 2018 requiring athletes with certain XY DSDs participating in women's running events from 400 meters to one mile to have blood testosterone levels below 5 nmol/L. Masilingi and Mboma were found positive for increased testosterone levels owing to a naturally existing hereditary issue during a medical evaluation during a training camp in Italy in early 2021. Prior to the assessment, neither sprinter was aware of the issue.