Luanda - The duo Sara Lemos and Geovana Kusselama are aiming to reach the podium in beach volleyball, in the women's category, at the African Games, to be held from 8 to 23 March in the city of Accra, Ghana.
This was announced to ANGOP in the Province of Luanda by captain Sara Lemos, as part of their preparations for the competition, saying that their first objective is to improve the 6th place of Angola's last participation, in Maputo, Mozambique, in 2011.
The volleyball player, a bronze medallist in the Zone VI in Mozambique, recognised that it was not going to be an easy mission, but together with her colleague Giovana Kusselama, they would do everything they could to dignify the country's name, given their hard preparation and dedication to the competition.
At the 2011 African Games in Maputo, Angola won 26 medals, six (6) gold, ten silver and the same number of bronze.
This Monday, the pair are taking a break, as they took part in the first stage of the beach volleyball circuit, called the "Gustavo Cruz Tournament", in which Sara Lemos, paired with Sayonara Magalhães, won the tournament by beating Geovana Kusselama/Domingas N'ganga, 2 sets to 1, on Sunday, on Luanda Island.
At the African Games in Ghana, Angola will also have a men's doubles team, made up of Edson Figueiredo/Evan Cipriano, with the same aim of winning the gold medal.
In 2015, at the African Games in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, the Edson Figueiredo/Eden Cerqueira duo won gold medal. In 2019, in Tunisia, Angola did not manage to get to the podium, having ended up in the fourth position.
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