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Muzala Samukonga (born 9 December 2002) [2] is a Zambian track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. In 2022, at the age of 19, he won gold medals at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and African Championships. [3] A flagbearer for Zambia at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Samukonga won the bronze medal in the 400 metres event.
Pretoria, South Africa 20 years, 255 days [3] 400 m: 43.91 A: Muzala Samukonga Zambia 29 April 2023 Botswana Golden Grand Prix Gaborone, Botswana 20 years, 141 days [4] 800 m: 1:41.01 David Rudisha Kenya 29 August 2010 Rieti Meeting: Rieti, Italy 21 years, 255 days 1000 m: 2:11.96 Noah Ngeny Kenya 5 September 1999 IAAF Grand Prix: Rieti, Italy
Samukonga got past James and Richards to pick off a bronze. [6] After the finish, Hall did a snow angel on the dry track to celebrate. Hall ran the #4 time in history, Hudson-Smith #5, the fastest non-winning time in history and a new European record. Samukonga #13 and Richards #14 also both achieved national records.
Muzala Samukonga: 7 August 2022 Commonwealth Games: Birmingham, United Kingdom [3] 43.91 A: Muzala Samukonga: 29 April 2023 Botswana Golden Grand Prix Gaborone, Botswana [4] 43.81 Muzala Samukonga: 7 August 2024 Olympic Games: Paris, France [5] 43.74 Muzala Samukonga: 7 August 2024 Olympic Games: Paris, France [6] 800 m: 1:46.14 Prince Mumba: 1 ...
Zambia competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, although it marked its official debut in 1964 under the name Northern Rhodesia, except for Montreal 1976, as the nation's joined the African boycott.
While best known in South Africa, "Senzeni Na?" has gained some popularity overseas. The song was sung at the funeral scene in the anti‐apartheid film The Power of One [9] as well as during the opening credits of the film In My Country, and a recording of the song as sung at the funeral of Steve Biko can be heard at the end of the album version of "Biko" by Peter Gabriel. [10]
The original 1982 version of the song peaked at No. 106 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Chart in June 1983. [2] Its success allowed Clegg to leave his academic position as an anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, to become a full-time musician. [3] [4] A remixed version was used on the soundtrack of the 1988 film Rain ...
"Ag Pleez Deddy" (also known as "The Ballad of the Southern Suburbs") is a South African song written and recorded by Jeremy Taylor, and released in 1962. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was written for the stage show Wait a Minim! , and has been described as the musical's "showpiece". [ 3 ]