Medal record | ||
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Representing Sweden | ||
Men’s Boxing | ||
World Amateur Championships | ||
Budapest 1997 | Light Welterweight |
Tonton Walombua Semakala (born April 5, 1975 in Kinshasa) is a professional boxer from Sweden, who was born in Zaire. [1] Nicknamed The New Swedish Hammer, Semakala's most notable performance as an amateur was winning the bronze medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There he was defeated in the semifinal of the light-welterweight division (– 63.5 kilograms) by Georgia's eventual silver medalist Paata Gvasalia. A year later he turned professional.
The Tonton Macoute or simply the Macoute was a special operations unit within the Haitian paramilitary force created in 1959 by dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier. In 1970 the militia was renamed the Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale. Haitians named this force after the Haitian mythological bogeyman, Tonton Macoute, who kidnaps and punishes unruly children by snaring them in a gunny sack before carrying them off to be consumed for breakfast.
Mark Francis O'Meara is an American professional golfer. He was a tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from their debut in 1986 to 2000. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.
Robert Karlsson is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour, and now plays on the PGA Tour Champions.
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Peter Hanson is a Swedish former professional golfer who played on the European Tour and has played on the PGA Tour.
Anders Gunnar Vilhelm Forsbrand is a Swedish professional golfer who formerly competed on the European Tour.
Mathias David Grönberg is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour, PGA Tour, and their second-tier tours.
Gabriel Hjertstedt is a Swedish professional golfer.
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Sven Tumba was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 1960s. He also represented Sweden in football as well as golf and became Swedish champion in waterskiing.
Henning Svensson was a Swedish amateur football defender who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Swedish Olympic squad. He did not play in a match, but was a reserve player.
Dirk De Wolf is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium.
Laurent Biondi is a former French cyclist. He was the Amateur Champion of France in 1982 and turned professional in 1983, competing until 1993. Later he was the team manager of the Ag2r-La Mondiale.
Jonas Blixt is a Swedish professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He is a three-time winner on the PGA Tour, with his most recent win coming at the 2017 Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
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Tonton Zola Moukoko is a Swedish former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Leif Westerberg is a Swedish professional golfer.
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