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| Full name | Sewonrets Quincy Mensah Okazawa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 December 1995 Yamagata, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sewon Okazawa (born 21 December 1995) is a Japanese boxer. [1] He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [2]
He was born in Yamagata, Japan to a Ghanaian father and a Japanese mother. [3]
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