1988 Summer Olympics / Participant (Zaire)

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Zaire took part in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , South Korea , with a delegation of 15 athletes (13 men and two women) in 15 competitions in three sports. Medals could not be won. It was the country’s third Summer Olympics participation.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men's

• Wabanko Banko
  • Light middleweight

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: eliminated by Laurensio Mercado from Ecuador

  Seventeenth place

• Serge Kabongo
  • medium weight

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: victory against James Iahuat from Vanuatu

  Round three: eliminated by Syed Hussain Shah from Pakistan

  Ninth place

• Tshibalabala Kadima
  • Super heavyweight

  Round one: eliminated against Andreas Schnieders from the Federal Republic of Germany

  Seventeenth place

• Around Kanika
  • Light heavyweight

  Round one: eliminated by Osmond Imadiyi from Nigeria

  Seventeenth place

• Ibibongo Nduita
  • Bantamweight

  Round one: win against Haji Ally from Tanzania

  Round two: eliminated by Katsuyuki Matsushima from Japan

  Seventeenth place

athletics

Ladies

• Christine Bakombo
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in round two (sixth place), 57.85 seconds

  • 800 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run one (eighth place), 2: 11.00 minutes

• Dikanda Diba
  • 3000 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in round two (sixteenth place), 10: 32.88 minutes

Men's

• Mwana Bute Kasongo
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: disqualified in run nine

• Kamana Koji
  • 10,000 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in round two, DNF

  • marathon

  Final: 2:38:34 hours, 73rd place

• Kazanga Makok
  • 800 meter run

  Round one: disqualified in run seven

• Kaleka Mutoke
  • 5000 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in round one (sixteenth place), 14: 56.33 minutes

  • marathon

  Final: 2:55:21 hours, 89th place

Cycling

Men's 100 km team time trial

• Results

  Final: 2: 21: 37.3 hours, 28th place

• team

  Mobange Amisi

  Pasi Mbenza

  Kimpale Mosengo

  Ndjibu N'Golomingi

singles

• Mobange Amisi
  • Road race 194 km

  Final: 98th place, 10:53 minutes behind the winner

• Kimpale Mosengo
  • Road race 194 km

  Final: Rank 104, 12:58 minutes behind the winner

• Ndjibu N'Golomingi
  • Road race 194 km

  Final: race not finished (DNF)

Web links

• Zairean Olympic team from 1988 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )