Boxers guarantee Commonwealth medals

Staff Reporter

NAMIBIA is guaranteed at least three boxing medals at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games after Mischa Monique Araes, Tryagain Morning Ndevelo and Philip Pumulo Mutakela Haoseb secured places in the semi-finals with quarter-final victories.

Araes, the first Namibian woman boxer to compete at the Commonwealth Games, enjoyed a memorable debut by defeating Sri Lanka’s Nadeeka Ranasinghe in the women’s flyweight (51kg) quarter-final.

The victory secures Araes at least a bronze medal and keeps her in contention for gold as she prepares to face England’s Ruby White in the semi-finals on Friday, 31 July.