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Mujandjae Kasuto
Personal information
Full nameMujandjae Kasuto
Nationality Namibia
Born (1985-11-25) 25 November 1985 (age 38)
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classMiddleweight

Mujandjae Kasuto (born 25 November 1985) is a Namibian amateur boxer who has competed twice at the Olympics.[1]

At the Commonwealth Games 2006 he lost early at junior welterweight (-64 kg).[2]

Kasuto competed for Namibia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in boxing at welterweight (-69 kg) after qualifying for the Games by winning his division at the qualifying tournament held in Windhoek in March 2008. At the 2008 Games, Kasuto lost in the round of 32 to Russia's Andrey Balanov.[3]

At the Commonwealth Games 2010 he lost to Northern Irishman Patrick Gallagher.[4]

At the All Africa Games 2011 he competed at middleweight (-75 kg) but lost to Felix Mwamba.[5]

At the Olympic qualifier he qualified for the Olympics at middleweight, beating fighters like Abdelmalek Rahou although he lost the final to local Badreddine Haddioui.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he beat Sobirjon Nazarov but lost to Zoltán Harcsa in the second round.[6]

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games he again competed at middleweight, reaching the last 16 where he lost to India's Vijender Vijender.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Biography at the 2006 Commonwealth Games". Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  2. ^ "CommonwealthGames2006". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  3. ^ Kasuto loses in first round Namibian Sport, 10 August 2008
  4. ^ "Commonwealth Games 2010". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  5. ^ "10.All-Africa Games - Maputo, Mozambique - September 3-9 2011" (PDF). amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Mujandjae Kasuto Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  7. ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Mujandjae Kasuto Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 11 January 2016.