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Born | 9 January 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Botswana | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Flyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 22 July 2012 |
Oteng Oteng (born 9 January 1990) is an amateur boxer from Botswana who qualified for the 2012 Olympics. [1] He was born in Mookane.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi he lost to Benson Gicharu Njangiru in the semifinal and won bronze.
At the 2011 All-Africa Games he won the rematch and the Flyweight title but at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he lost his second bout to eventual winner Misha Aloyan.
He also won the 2012 African Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Oteng was defeated by Puerto Rican Jeyvier Cintrón in the first round with a score of 14–12. [2]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he lost 0-3 to Reece McFadden in the quarterfinal of the men's flyweight. [3]
Zou Shiming is a Chinese former boxer and two-time Olympic champion. In amateur boxing, he is China's most successful boxer of all time. In the light-flyweight division, he won three consecutive Olympic medals, as well as three World Amateur Boxing Championships gold medals in 2005, 2007 and 2011. He competed in professional boxing from 2013 to 2017 and held the WBO flyweight title from 2016 to 2017.
Rau'shee Warren is an American professional boxer who held the WBA (Undisputed), and IBO bantamweight titles from 2016 to 2017. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2007 World Championships, as well as bronze at the 2005 and 2011 World Championships, all in the flyweight division.
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Botswana competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's ninth appearance at the Olympics.
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