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Former Namibian Olympic sprinter Beatrice Masilingi has embarked on a new sporting chapter, transitioning from athletics to rugby after making her debut for the Unam Steenbokkies last weekend.<\/p>\n
The move marks a return to a team sport for Masilingi, who rose to international prominence alongside fellow sprinter Christine Mboma after the pair represented Namibia at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at just 18-years old.<\/p>\n
Masilingi said rugby was not entirely new to her, having played touch rugby during her…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Former Namibian Olympic sprinter Beatrice Masilingi has embarked on a new sporting chapter, transitioning from athletics to rugby after making her debut for the Unam Steenbokkies last weekend. The move marks a return to a team sport for Masilingi, who rose to international prominence alongside fellow sprinter Christine Mboma after the pair represented Namibia at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,39073,4706,724,257,8495,254,55721,20981,10900],"class_list":["post-248430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-masilingi","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steenbokkies","tag-swaps","tag-track"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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