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Nationality | Indonesian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ambon, Indonesia | 31 December 1945|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William "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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