MBABANE – In a move to further motivate athletes, the Eswatini Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (EOCGA) has made an effort to explain the policy of incentives for athletes.
Speaking to the media, EOCGA Director Maxwell Jele explained that their Olympic policy had incentives for every stage of qualification.
“When athletes, for example, qualify from hits to semi-finals, they get an incentives of E10 000. When they qualify from there to the finals, they get E2 ,000. From the finals, there are the podium finishes.”
“If you get a bronze medal, you get E100 000. If you get a silver medal, you get E150 000 and if you earn a gold medal, you get E200,000,” said Jele.
Jele noted that the different games have different incentives based on their scope of regional or global competition. The different games athletes compete in include Africa Games, Commonwealth Games, as well as the Olympic Games
The Kingdom of Eswatini has been participating in the Commonwealth Games since 1970, and has won four medals in boxing and track. The country is yet to bring back a medal from the Olympic Games in which the country’s athletes have been representing Eswatini since 1972.
