Philip Waruinge

Philip Waruinge (born February 3, 1945 in Kenya ) is a former Kenyan boxer . Waruinge won the bronze medal at the 1968 Olympic Games and was a silver medalist at the 1972 Olympic Games .

amateur

Waruinge won his first international medal in 1962 at the age of 17. At the Commonwealth Games in Perth he won the bronze medal in the flyweight (-51 kg). Two years later at the African Championships in Accra, he won the gold medal in the featherweight (-57 kg), which he qualified for the Olympic Games taking place in the same year . In these he retired after a victory over the later WBA world champion Alfonso Frazer, Panama (KO 1), in the round of 16 against the later bronze medalist Heinz Schulz , GDR (5: 0).

In 1965 Waruinge won the first ever African Games in Brazzaville and the following year the Commonwealth Games in Kingston and the African Championships in Lagos . With another victory at the African championships in 1968, he qualified for the second time for the Olympic Games . This time Waruinge reached the semi-finals after victories over Jean-Paul Anton, France (5-0), Mohamed Sourour, Morocco (5-0), and Miguel Garcia, Argentina . He lost this to the eventual Olympic champion Antonio Roldán , Mexico (3-2), and won an Olympic bronze medal.

In 1970 Waruinge again won the Commonwealth Games . At the 1972 Olympic Games , after winning over Jabbar Feli, Iran (4: 1), Salah Mohamed Amin, Egypt (5: 0), Jouko Lindberg, Finland (4: 1), and Clemente Rojas, Colombia (3: 2) ), the final, which he lost to Boris Kuznetsov , Soviet Union (3: 2), and thus won the Olympic silver medal.

professional

1973 Waruinge became a professional in Japan under the name Waruinge Nakayama. His professional career started out pretty mixed. Of his first 12 fights, he won only 7 and ended in a draw. In 1975 Waruinge became Japanese champions. He defended this title in second fights in the same year, before losing a fight for the vacant WBC world title against Rigoberto Riasco, Panama (TKO 9th) in 1976 . In the same year another title shot was against the unbeaten world champion Carlos Zarate , which it does it in the fourth round ko suggested. In the next fight he lost his Japanese title and after further unsuccessful attempts to get a title fight again, he ended his career in 1978 with a fight record of 14 wins, 10 losses and one draw.

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