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| Nationality | Indonesian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 December 1945 Ambon, Dutch East Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wiem Gommies (born 31 December 1945) is an Indonesian boxer. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. [1] At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he lost to Vyacheslav Lemeshev of the Soviet Union. [1]
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