Tonton Semakala
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Budapest 1997 | Light Welterweight |
Tonton Walombua Semakala (born April 5, 1975 in Kinshasa) is a professional boxer from Sweden, who was born in Zaire.[1] Nicknamed The New Swedish Hammer, Semakala's most notable performance as an amateur was winning the bronze medal at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There he was defeated in the semifinal of the light-welterweight division (– 63.5 kilograms) by Georgia's eventual silver medalist . A year later he turned professional.
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Kinshasa
- Light-welterweight boxers
- Swedish male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Swedish boxing biography stubs
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- Democratic Republic of the Congo sportspeople stubs