Para Table Tennis Targets Silver At Regional Tourney

The Botswana National Table Tennis team will travel to Lesotho for the AUSC Region 5 games next month. PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
The Botswana National Table Tennis team will travel to Lesotho for the AUSC Region 5 games next month. PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

In their first ever-international tournament, the national Para Table Tennis team targets a silver medal at the AUSC Region 5 games to be held in Lesotho next month.

The team debuted in the last year’s edition of the tournament hosted in Gaborone and scooped a gold medal in the women’s singles.

Speaking to Monitor Sport, the team’s coach Godiraone Bagwasi bemoaned the poor preparations. He said the number of players has reduced from four to just three this year as he decried the lack of funds ahead of the regional spectacular.

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