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She moved to the UK aged 10 and is unable to return to the country of her birth, Cameroon, because of her sexuality – homosexuality is punishable with up to five years in prison in the African country.<\/p>\n
Aged 20, Ngamba was arrested, along with her brother Kennet, and sent from Manchester to a detention camp in London and at risk of being deported until being released a day later.<\/p>\n
She lives in Bolton, where she took up boxing aged 15, and has since graduated from Bolton University with a degree in criminology.<\/p>\n
She is yet to gain British citizenship, however, which prevented her from being part of Team GB in Paris.<\/p>\n
She trains with the squad in Sheffield, took part in the pre-Games photoshoot with the British squad and had GB Boxing coaches in her corner against Bylon.<\/p>\n
The refugee team was first introduced in 2016 for the Rio Olympics but did not win a medal in Brazil or five years later in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Their squad is made up of 37 athletes in Paris across 12 sports with Ngamba one of the flagbearers at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n
Other athletes include runner Dominic Lobalu<\/a>, cyclist Eyeru Gebru<\/a> and Farzad Mansouri<\/a>, who competes in taekwondo.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in Thursday’s boxing, Hasanboy Dusmatov won gold for Uzbekistan in the men’s 51kg category by beating home favourite Billal Bennama.<\/p>\n China’s Yuan Chang also took gold in the women’s 54kg with victory over Turkey’s Hatice Akbas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n