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Salima Mukansanga
- The Rwandan official took part in games at both the Tokyo Olympics and the Women's World Cup in France.
- Mukansanga was the first woman to officiate in the African Cup of Nations in 2022, leading an all-female officiating squad that included Fatiha Jermoumi (Morocco), Carine Atemzabong (Cameroon), and Bouchra Karboubi (Morocco) as the VAR.
- She was attracted by referees as a child and, began her refereeing career as a teenager in Rwanda. She gave up playing football after secondary school to become a referee.
- Mukansanga has a Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
- She is the youngest of the three selected women referees. The Rwandan is just 33-year-old.
- It was Mukansanga, that officiated the world's highest-altitude football match on Mount Kilimanjaro in 2017.
- Since 2009, she has been on the FIFA International Referees List.
- In 2019, the 38-year-old became the first woman to officiate a big men's European competition as well as a French Ligue 1 encounter.
- She also became the first woman to officiate a UEFA Champions League match in 2020.
- Frappart became the first woman to officiate a men's World Cup qualifying match in 2021.
- She was the referee for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final between the United States and the Netherlands.
- She is a three-time winner of the IFFHS World's Best Woman Referee: 2019, 2020, and 2021.
- The 36-year-old was: like Frappart and Mukansanga, a referee at the Tokyo Olympics and the Women's World Cup in France.
- In April 2022, she became the first female referee to officiate a game in the Asian Men's Champions League. The match between Melbourne City and Jeonnam Dragons, saw former Arsenal defender Carl Jenkinson score the opening goal for Melbourne.
- Yamashita was also part of the first all-female cast to officiate an AFC Cup match in May 2019, when they officiated a match between Myanmar's Yangon United FC and Cambodia's Naga World.