Zaira Akua Forson<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zaira Akua Forson of Ghana has made a full recovery after she and seven other female swimmers were attacked by Jellyfish in their open water event at the just ended African Beach Games in Hammamet, Tunisia.<\/p>\n
The 18- year old Spain based student, has since left the games village and returned to her base in Malaga with coach Nicole Kerr.<\/p>\n
However, the bizarre Jellyfish incident was one of the most dramatic developments at the 15 disciplines sports festival.<\/p>\n
One scene captured by Africa Media Channel (AMC) had Rwandan swimmer Claude Dusabe in pain after being stung multiple times by Jellyfish as he battled to complete the course.<\/p>\n
The swimmer had never in his life encountered jellyfish in the sea whilst competing and was clueless about what was happening as he was bitten and stung mercilessly.<\/p>\n
The 24 year old had to be rescued from the water just after the mid way point in order to receive treatment.<\/p>\n
He was among several male athletes who could not complete the course and at least 12 female swimmers who also had to be pulled out for the water.<\/p>\n
Out of a possible 17 female competitors, only five swimmers eventually completed the course with Amica De Jaegar of South Africa clinching gold in a time of 1 hour and 4 minutes.<\/p>\n
The silver also went to South Africa\u2019s Kate Beavon whilst Melek Wadar from Morocco took the bronze.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the coach of Zaira Forson expressed her satisfaction at the rapid response and calm attention of paramedics to the stricken swimmers but also relayed her disappointment that the 5 kilometers race was not called off entirely with so many swimmers unable to complete the course.<\/p>\n
Coach Nicole Kerr confirmed that it was the very first time the Ghanaian swimmer had not completed a race in her entire career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an unusual experience for Zaira because she was battling with Jellyfish right from the start and this obviously went a long way to hinder her progress. Apart from the initial shock and pain from the stings, she recovered quickly. She will definitely come back stronger\u201d<\/p>\n
In the men\u2019s race Phillip Sedler of Namibia took the gold in a time of 58 minutes and 54 seconds.<\/p>\n
He was followed by swimmers from South Africa and Tunisia in silver and bronze positions respectively.<\/p>\n
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