Ninth All-Africa Games and the African Senior Badminton Championship-Local athletes rewarded |31 July 2007
The occasion was the sending off of the Seychelles team for the Seventh Indian Ocean Islands Games to be held in Madagascar from August 9 to 19.
It was the Minister for Community Development, Youth, Sports and Culture, Mr Vincent Meriton, who gave the athletes their financial rewards in the presence of President James Michel, Vice-President Joseph Belmont, high government officials and invited guests.
The three silver medallists - female javelin specialist Lindy Leveau-Agricole, female weightlifter Janet Thélermont in the 69kg category, and male laser standard sailor Allan Julie – received R7,500 each.
In Algiers, Seychelles also won six bronze medals through female weightlifter Janet Thélermont (one in the 69kg category), female weightlifter Clementina Agricole (three bronze in the 58kg category), the badminton team made up of Cynthia Course, Juliette Ah-Wan, Catherina Paulin, Nicholas Jumaye, Steve Malcouzane and Georgie Cupidon (one bronze) and female badminton player Catherina Paulin (one bronze in the ladies' singles). They were rewarded R5,000 for each bronze medal won.
For their mixed doubles triumph at the African Senior Badminton Championship in Mauritius in May, Ah-Wan and Cupidon got R8,000 each.
Ah-Wan and Cupidon joined forces with Cynthia Course, 
The men’s doubles pair of Malcouzane and Cupidon lost the final to the Dednam brothers from South Africa to settle for the runners-up berth worth R6,000.
As for the ladies’ doubles team of Ah-Wan and Paulin, it finished third after losing in the semifinal and they won R4,000 each.