PARALYMPIC Gold medalist Eliot Mujaji has been included in the provisional team for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games to be held in August.

Elliot Mujaji

Remigious Mumbire will coach the athletics team with Peter Mahwindo is the team manager.

Announcing the squad, SRC said the provisional team of 23 athletes will be teamed in due course, but unlike in the past, they will be sending a bigger team.

“In the past we used to send Mujaji only, but this is now a thing of the past following the setting up of the interim Zimbabwe Paralympics Committee (ZPC).

"All along we did not have an organization that deals specifically with the Paralympic Games and that is why in the past we used to send only Elliot Mujaji. The athletes will soon start preparing for the games very soon with finances coming from the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC),” said SRC Director for Development Joseph Muchechetere.

Muchechetere added that they will be expecting more medals given that they are sending an enlarged team.

Muchechetere added that their ultimate goal will be to see the newly born ZPC operating in tandem with the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee.

“We expect more medals this time around as we will be sending a much bigger team. The final team will be announced in early July,” he said.

Apart from Mujaji, the Zimbabwean team expects medals from wheel chair athlete Elford Moyo who will be competing in the T54 category.

Moyo has had a fantastic season this year and could cap it with a medal at the Games.

Mujaji won a gold medal at the 2004 Sydney Games held in Australia which won him a trip with the first family to Malaysia.

Athletics Amputees (T46 category)

Elliot Mujaji

Wheelchair category (T54 category)

Elford Moyo, Edmund Makutya, Wilson Nyako, Moline Majoni, Margaret Bangajena and Siyayezelo Phiri.

Visually impaired athletes (T12 category)

Isaac Nyamukapa, Munongi Mhandu, Norman Musiiwa, Nokuthula Dube, Auxilia Manongwe and Doreen Kamhunga.

Field events (F54 category)

Casemore Marimo, Fedrick Ganyaupfu and Marko Mwale.

Team manager: Peter Mahwindo

Head coach: Remigious Mumbire

Goal ball

Lloyd Gumbo, Moffat Phiri, Nathan Zvimba, Godfery Tigere, Reward Zvinavashe and Gerero Pasvani.

Michael Muza: Team manager

Bhuka Chiparaushe: Head Coach

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