DAR ES SALAAM, June 2 -- THE 2024 best sportsmen and women awards saw a number of big surprizes, but the decoration of Theresia Dismas, the first Tanzanian woman to win a silver medal during the Inaugural All Africa Games in Congo-Brazzaville in 1965 stood above the rest of the surprises.

Theresia name heralded the list of athletes who brightened the night gala, organized by the National Sports Council of Tanzania (NSC)and held at the SuperDome in Masaki, Dar es Salaam.

Its been 60 years since Theresia won Tanzania its first silver medal. Tanzania was just one year old then, taking into consideration that it came out officially on 26 April 1964, after Tanganyika was united with Zanzibar to form Tanzania.

Theresia was decorated as life ...