Emanuel Thabiso Nketu

Emanuel Thabiso Nketu (born January 25, 1980 ) is a Lesothic amateur boxer who mainly appears in the bantamweight division .

His biggest tournament participation was at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne , when he played two fights and won one, and in boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing .

Career

Little or nothing is known about Emanuel Thabiso Nketu's early career. As a 26-year-old he took part in the boxing tournament to in Australia discharged 2006 Commonwealth Games in part, where he was part of a 29-member delegation athletes, and could free himself from his opponent while in one of his two fights. He won after he was in the With the successes of compatriot Moses Kopo , who won the silver medal in the light welterweight at these games, but could not connect Nketu. While he emerged victorious over Manju Wanniarachchi from Sri Lanka in the round of the best 16 with 21:13 points , he lost in the quarter-finals to the later bronze medalist Mmoloki Nogeng from Botswana , who himself only in the semifinals to the later silver medalist Bruno Julie from Mauritius was subject.

Nevertheless, he established himself as one of the most successful boxers in his home country and two years later he was the only boxer in Lesotho to take part in the boxing tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. There he was eliminated in the first round against Bruno Julie from Mauritius with 8:17 points in four rounds, although he was still in the lead with 4-0 points in the first round. While the athlete Tsotang Maine appeared as the Lesothic flag bearer at the opening ceremony, Emanuel Thabiso Nketu was the flag bearer of his home country at the closing ceremonies.

Web links

• Emanuel Thabiso Nketu in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boxing: 54kg (English), accessed on March 8, 2016
2. ↑ Botswana star lights up Africa , accessed March 8, 2016
3. ↑ Closing Ceremony Flag Bearers (English; pdf), accessed on March 8, 2016