Amon Kotey

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Amon Kotey boxer
Data
Birth Name Joseph Amon Neequaye
birthday January 16, 1949
Date of death May 10, 2010
nationality GhanaGhana Ghanaian
Weight class Light welterweight , welterweight
size 175 cm
Profile in the BoxRec database
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships
bronze 1974 Havana Half welter weight (up to 63.5 kg)

Joseph Amon Neequaye , known as Amon Kotey (born January 16, 1949 - May 10, 2010 ) was a Ghanaian boxer who won the bronze medal at the 1974 World Amateur Championships.

biography

From the late 1960s Kotey belonged to the Ghanaian national boxing team ("Black Bombers"), initially only as a substitute member. It was not until 1972 that the Ghanaian played his first international match . Kotey missed the 1973 African Games because of arrogant behavior in the preliminary rounds .

However, together with his compatriots Mohamed Ali , Joe Destimo , Roy Kaba , Joe Kalala , Kwao Kuleho and Atta Yeboah , the boxer took part in the first world boxing championships for amateurs in the Cuban capital Havana in August 1974 . In the light welterweight category ( up to 63.5 kg), Kotey reached the semi-finals after winning points over Patricio Diaz (Argentina) and Obisia Nwakpa (Nigeria) and was defeated by the Bulgarian Vladimir Kolew on points. His bronze medal is so far (as of June 2021) the only medal in Ghana at world boxing championships . On December 16, 1974, Kotey was voted Amateur Boxer of the Year by the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) .

In April 1976 the boxer lost to the Romanian Carol Hajnal unanimously on points at the Golden Belt Tournament in Bucharest in the first round . Kotey had been nominated for the 1976 Summer Olympics , but was prevented by the Ghanaian boycott of the games from competing in the first round against the later bronze medalist in the welterweight (up to 67 kg) Victor Zilberman from Romania. The boxer had to end his amateur career after 44 wins and eight losses due to an arm injury.

Kotey, whose hobbies were stated to be music, reading, and lady in the 1970s , subsequently worked as a boxing trainer . In Bukom , the center of Ghanaian boxing, he founded the Billy Kotey Memorial Boxing Club , which produced the Olympians Amon Neequaye and Ray Narh and is one of the most successful boxing stables in the country. The Ghanaian was buried on July 8, 2010 in Asere Djorshie (Accra); he had died two months earlier at the age of 61.

Web links

  • Amon Kotey in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Top Sporting Personalities. In: Daily Graphic of December 19, 1974, p. 14 ( online ), including photo.
  2. ↑ 1.World Championships, Havana, Cuba, August 17 to 30, 1974. In: amateur-boxing.strefa.pl , accessed June 6 2,021th
  3. ↑ 5th Golden Belt Tournament, Sports & Culture Palace, Bucharest, Romania, April 19-25, 1976. In: amateur-boxing.strefa.pl , accessed on June 6, 2021.
  4. ↑ 21.Olympic Games - Montreal, Canada - July 18-31 1976. In: amateur-boxing.strefa.pl , accessed on June 6, 2021.
  5. ↑ Amon Kotey's burial today. In: Daily Graphic, July 8, 2010, p. 62 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Kotey, Amon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neequaye, Joseph Amon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1949
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2010