Kabange Mupopo

Kabange Mupopo
	Mupopo in 2017
Personal information
Full name	Kabange Mupopo
Date of birth	21 September 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth	Lusaka, Zambia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Green Buffaloes
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Green Buffaloes
International career
2012–	Zambia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kabange Mupopo (born 21 September 1992) is a Zambian sprinter and football midfielder. She won gold in the 400 metres at the 2015 All-Africa Games and represented Zambia in football at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Mupopo started playing football at 11 with her brother's guidance.^[3] She played for Green Buffaloes F.C. and the Zambia women's national football team; as team captain, she led Zambia to the 2014 African Women's Championship tournament, where they were eliminated in the group stage.^[3]^[4]

Mupopo picked up athletics in the spring of 2014, running 53.44 for 400 metres in her first official meeting.^[3]^[5] She represented Zambia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where she ran 53.09 and was eliminated in the semi-finals.^[3]^[6] In August, she took silver in 51.21 at the African Championships in Marrakech, breaking the Zambian record; she lost the gold to Nigeria's Folashade Abugan, who ran the same time, in a photo-finish.^[7] Mupopo qualified to represent Africa at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup, also in Marrakech, where she placed fourth and improved her national record to 50.87.^[3]^[6] Mupopo received an 18-month athletics scholarship from the Zambian Olympic Committee in 2015, leading her to concentrate on athletics and not football.^[8]^[9]

Mupopo debuted in the IAAF Diamond League in Doha in May 2015, placing seventh in 51.88.^[10] In July 2015 she ran 50.86 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, improving her national record by one-hundredth of a second.^[6] She was selected for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.^[11]