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| Born | 6 July 1974 (age 49) Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
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James Swan (born 6 July 1974 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory) is an indigenous bantamweight boxer from Australia, who represented his native country at 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. [1]
Swan won bronze medals at 1994 and 1998 Commonwealth Games.
He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. [2]
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