Roland Raforme
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Nationality | Seychellois | ||||||||||||||||
Born | 3 November 1966 | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Light heavyweight Heavyweight | ||||||||||||||||
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Roland Bernard Raforme (born 5 April 1966) is a Seychellois former boxer and double Olympian.
Representing Seychelles in the men's light heavyweight category at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Raforme reached the quarter-finals where he was beaten by the Hungarian boxer Zoltán Béres on points.[1] Returning four years later to compete in the same event at the Atlanta Games, he was stopped in the first round by Troy Amos-Ross.[2] Raforme was more successful in the 1998 Commonwealth Games where he won a silver medal in the men's heavyweight category after losing in the final to Mark Simmons from Canada.[3] Previously, he represented Seychelles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.[4]
References[]
- ^ Grasso, John; Mallon, Bill; Heijmans, Jeroen (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 525. ISBN 978-1-4422-4859-5.
- ^ "Roland Raforme Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
- ^ Kabukuru, Wanjohi (24 July 2014). "Team Seychelles" begin hunt for medals at the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow". Seychelles News Agency. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "15.Commonwealth Games - Victoria, Canada - August 18-28 1994". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
Categories:
- Seychellois male boxers
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Olympic boxers of Seychelles
- Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Boxers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Seychelles
- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- African Games bronze medalists for Seychelles
- African Games medalists in boxing
- Competitors at the 1991 All-Africa Games
- Competitors at the 1995 All-Africa Games
- Heavyweight boxers
- African boxing biography stubs
- Seychellois sportspeople stubs