Keith Mwila
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's boxing | ||
Representing Zambia | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1984 Los Angeles | Light Flyweight |
Keith Mwila (November 1966 – 9 January 1993)[1] was a Zambian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the men's Light flyweight (-48 kg) category at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States,[2] becoming the first Olympic medalist from Zambia.
Olympic results
[edit]- Round of 32: Bye
- Round of 16: Defeated Chung Pao Ming (Taiwan/Chinese Taipei) Referee stopped contest in second round
- Quarterfinal Defeated Mamoru Kuroiwa (Japan) by decision, 5-0
- Lost to Salvatore Todisco (Italy) by decision, 0-5 (was awarded bronze medal)
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympedia – Keith Mwila". www.olympedia.org.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Keith Mwila". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
External links
[edit]- Keith Mwila at BoxRec (registration required)
- Keith Mwila at Olympics.com
- Keith Mwila at Olympedia
- Article on Keith Mwila
Categories:
- 1966 births
- 1993 deaths
- Light-flyweight boxers
- Olympic boxers for Zambia
- Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Zambia
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Zambian male boxers
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- African Olympic medalist stubs
- African boxing biography stubs
- Zambian sportspeople stubs