A free event will take place at the Epworth Olympafrica Centre on July 29, where a number of sports will be on offer for those in attendance.

Football, netball, volleyball, rugby, basketball and table tennis will all be part of the day in the African nation.

There will also be displays of karate, wushu, cycling and judo, as well as other fun activities.

In addition, fun-runs will take place over five kilometres and 10km.

Olympic Day falls each year on June 23.

It commemorates the founding of the international Olympic Movement by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894.

The aim of the day is to spread the ideas of the Olympic Movement and promote participation in sport around the world.

Governing bodies around the world do not always hold their events on June 23, such as Zimbabwe.

The country has won eight Olympic medals in its history, seven of them courtesy of swimmer Kirsty Coventry.

She is responsible for two of the three golds the country has won - both in the women's 200 metres backstroke at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

The women's hockey team also won a gold medal at the heavily-boycotted Moscow 1980 Games.