Everisto Mulenga
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| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Zambian | |||||||||||||
| Born | 26 March 1999[1] | |||||||||||||
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Everisto Mulenga (born 26 March 1999) is a Zambian amateur boxer. He won a bronze medal at the 2019 African Games and later qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics by winning the African Qualification Tournament, both at featherweight.
Career[]
Mulenga won a silver medal at the 2016 African Region V Youth U20 Games in Luanda, losing to Ricardo Malajika of South Africa in the finals.[2] He reached the quarterfinals of the bantamweight event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where he won his first bout before suffering a loss to Mohammad Hussamuddin.[3] Mulenga won a featherweight bronze medal at the 2019 African Games in Rabat.[4] He won three straight fights before losing to the eventual gold medalist Mohamed Hamout in the semifinals.[5]
Mulenga qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics with a first-place finish at the African Qualification Tournament in the featherweight division.[6]
References[]
- ^ Commonwealth Games athlete profile
- ^ Etheridge, Mark (14 December 2016). "Gymnasts and boxers grab Games gold". South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ "Gold Coast 2018: Boxing – Men's 56kg results". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ O’Kane, Patrick (6 September 2019). "National Olympic Committee of Zambia President praises African Games medallists". Inside the Games. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ "Jeux Africains - Rabat 2019 Results" (PDF). amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Phiri, Chris (27 February 2020). "Three Zambian Boxers Storm Tokyo Olympics". Zambia Reports. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
External links[]
- Amateur boxing record for Everisto Mulenga from BoxRec
- Everisto Mulenga at Olympedia
- Living people
- 1999 births
- Zambian male boxers
- Bantamweight boxers
- Featherweight boxers
- Boxers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Zambia
- Competitors at the 2019 African Games
- African Games medalists in boxing
- African Games bronze medalists for Zambia
- Olympic boxers of Zambia
- Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics