Elias Nashivela | |
---|---|
Statistics | |
Real name | Elias Nashivela |
Weight(s) | welterweight |
Nationality | ![]() |
Boxing record | |
Total fights | 2 |
Wins | 2 |
Wins by KO | 1 |
Elias Nashivela is a Namibian boxer. A middleweight, Nashivela competed for Namibia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the Middleweight division. In his first match, he beat Albert Blaize of Dominica. When the referee stopped the fight, Nashivela was up 19-0 in points in the 2nd round. [1]
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean; it shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek, and it is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.
Middleweight is a weight class in combat sports.
Namibia competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010. Namibia sent 28 athletes and 11 officials to the Games, which was fewer than it had in 2006. Namibian athletes competed in athletics, archery, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, bowls, shooting, and paralympics. It however won more medals then in 2006.
In 2006, Nashivela was a member of the under-20 Namibian national boxing team. [2]
The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour. The event was only open to men and bouts were contested over four rounds of two minutes each. Five judges scored the fighters in real time and the boxer with the most points at the end was the winner.
Lupematasila Bob Gasio, known as Bob Gasio, is a boxer from Samoa. He competed in the 1994 Commonwealth Games where he won a silver medal for boxing in the Men's Light-Middleweight class. He competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Men's Middleweight class.
Vijender Singh Beniwal, better known as Vijender Singh is an Indian professional boxer and the current WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight Champion and WBO Oriental Super Middleweight Champion from Kaluwas, Bhiwani district in Haryana. He was educated in his village, after which he received a bachelor's degree from a local college in Bhiwani. He practised boxing at the Bhiwani Boxing Club where coach Jagdish Singh recognised his talent and encouraged him to take up boxing. He was coached by the Indian Boxing Coach Jagdish Singh.
The principal sports in Namibia are football, rugby union, cricket, golf and fishing. Boxing and athletics are also popular as well. The home stadium for all national teams is Independence Stadium in Windhoek, while Sam Nujoma Stadium in Katutura is also occasionally used.
Japhet Uutoni is a Namibian professional boxer in the light flyweight division. He was the 2005 Namibian sportsperson of the year in the Namibian newspaper and won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games by defeating England's Darren Langley on points (37-24). He also won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Mujandjae Kasuto is a Namibian amateur boxer who has competed twice at the Olympics.
Jarrod Fletcher is an Australian professional boxer and a former world middleweight title challenger. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the middleweight division.
The Middleweight class in the boxing at the 2010 Commonwealth Games competition is a class. Middleweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 75 kilograms (165 lb).
Nisar Khan is an amateur Pakistani boxer who fights in the middleweight (75 kg) class.
Sakaria Lukas is a Namibian boxer. A bantamweight, Lukas competed for Namibia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the Bantamweight division. In his first match, he beat Joseph Ham of Scotland. Following the match, Ham lost consciousness and was treated for a concussion. In Lukas' second match, he was defeated by Botswana's Tirafalo Seoko on points, 11-13.
Patrick "Paddy" Gallagher is a professional boxer from Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He who won the welterweight gold at the 2010 Commonwealth games. He represents the Gleann ABC in Belfast and is the current U21 Irish light welterweight champion, Irish Intermediate champion and Ulster Elite runner up.
Vikas Krishan Yadav is an Indian male boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, who won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category and a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Sakaria 'Sackey' Shivute is a Namibian boxer. Shivute competed for Namibia at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Fighting as a middleweight, Shivute lost to Australian Justann Crawford in the first round. He also represented Namibia at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and at the 1995 All-Africa Games, where he won a silver medal.
Joseph Benhard is a Namibian boxer. Shivute competed for Namibia at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Fighting as a light flyweight, Benhard lost to Spaniard Rafael Lozano in the first round. He also represented Namibia at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
Jermain "Choo Choo" Mackey is a Bahamian professional middle/super middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 2000s and 2010s who won the Bahamas super middleweight title, World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) super middleweight title, World Boxing Association (WBA) Fedecaribe super middleweight title, Commonwealth super middleweight title, and was a challenger for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) North American Boxing Organization (NABO) super middleweight title against Jean Pascal, WBC International super middleweight title against Adonis Stevenson, and World Boxing Association Fedelatin super middleweight title against Kirt Sinnette, his professional fighting weight varied from 160 3⁄4 lb, i.e. welterweight to 170 lb, i.e. light heavyweight. He represented the Bahamas at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Maurice Dennis was an amateur and professional boxer from Camden Town, England. He boxed between 1938 and 1940 an had 14 professional contests. He was ABA Middleweight Champion in 1937 and a silver medalist in boxing at the 1938 Commonwealth Games.
The women's middleweight boxing competitions at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia took place between 6 and 14 April at Oxenford Studios. Women middleweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 75 kilograms.
The men's middleweight boxing competitions at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia took place between 6 and 14 April at Oxenford Studios. Middleweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 75 kilograms.
Frankie Lucas is a former boxer best known for winning the gold medal in the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand in the middleweight category for St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In the final, Lucas defeated Julius Luipa of Zambia.
BoxRec or boxrec.com is a website dedicated to holding updated records of professional boxers, both male and female. It also maintains a MediaWiki-based encyclopaedia of boxing.
![]() | This biographical article related to a Namibian boxer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |