President Patrick Herminie received 19-year-old boxer Jade Micock at State House on 29 October to mark his silver medal in the 80kg division at the senior African championships, State House said. It is the second African silver of Micock’s career, after a youth-level medal in 2025.
The championships were held at the Kasarani Indoor Arena in Nairobi, with finals on 22 October. Kenya’s Citizen Digital described them as the first African championships run under World Boxing. They drew 15 nations and more than 150 boxers, and Kenya took the team title, the outlet reported. Micock was one of three boxers Seychelles sent. Sebastiano Pierani (65kg) and Lorenzo Bonne (75kg) went out early, according to Seychelles Nation.
His record is broader than the release suggests. Seychelles Nation reported a silver at the African Youth Championship in Guinea in May 2025, and he won 80kg gold at a youth tournament in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in October 2025. He finished fifth at the 2024 IBA Youth World Championships in Montenegro. At the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July he lost his quarter-final to India’s Ankush Panghal, ANI reported.
Youth and Sports Minister Kalsey Belle and National Sports Council chief executive Mario Pragassen accompanied him to State House. Micock told reporters he used the meeting to raise challenges facing boxing and to discuss his ambitions. The release does not say what challenges he raised or whether any support was promised.
Analysis: A courtesy call is recognition, not funding. The release announces no grant, training programme or competition budget. Both officials who attended are new in post: Seychelles Nation reported Belle’s swearing-in as sports minister in November 2025 and Pragassen’s appointment to the sports council in April 2026.
Watch for whether the ministry or the council publishes any support for Micock’s next international programme and for the rest of the Nairobi squad. For a small island federation competing against the continent’s established boxing powers, the case for backing rests on results in African sport.
