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Full name | Lechedzani Luza | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Master | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Born | Mbalambi,North East | December 20, 1978||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Weight class | Flyweight | ||||||||||||||
Club | UB Boxing Club | ||||||||||||||
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Lechedzani Luza (born December 20, 1978) is a boxer from Botswana. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Luza took the silver medal. He took gold in 2004 at the 2nd Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana, finally defeating Madagascar's Georges Rakotoarimbelo. He went on to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, but Morocco's Hicham Mesbahi eliminated him in the first round of the men's flyweight (– 51 kg) division.
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