Hastings Bwalya
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Born | 25 August 1985 Lusaka, Zambia | |||||||||||||
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||
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Hastings Bwalya (born 25 August 1985) is a Zambian boxer who won the 2007 All-Africa Games at junior welter, and then competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Career[]
Bwalya was defeated in the first round of the 2006 Commonwealth Games at lightweight, and moved up a division. He beat Herbert Nkabiti from Botswana in the 2007 All-African final. In 2008 he qualified for Beijing. He was edged out 21:22 by Moroccan Driss Moussaid in the semis but beat Abdelrahman Salah for the third spot. At the Olympics he lost his first bout 8:12 to Mongolian Uranchimegiin Mönkh-Erdene.
He compiled a 12-0 record as a professional. His career was placed on a hiatus after he sustained an injury.
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- 1985 births
- Living people
- Light-welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Zambia
- Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Zambia
- Zambian male boxers
- African Games gold medalists for Zambia
- African Games medalists in boxing
- Sportspeople from Lusaka
- Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- African boxing biography stubs
- Zambian sportspeople stubs