Refugee Olympic Team medallist Cindy Ngamba: ‘I’m proud of my sexuality and of my ethnicity’

Cindy Ngamba (Image: IOC Media)

Cindy Ngamba made history at this year’s Paris Olympics when she became the first-ever medallist for the Refugee Olympic Team, winning bronze in the women’s 75kg boxing event. But her story is truly one of triumph in the face of adversity.

Born in Cameroon, at the age of 11, Ngamba and her brother came to the UK to live with their dad and nine half-siblings in Bolton. It was there, at 15, that she took up boxing. But a shock discovery meant that outside the ring her fight had only just begun. When she was 16, with hopes of going to university, she discovered that she did not have the correct documentation to study or even stay in the UK — instead, she was in

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