Sakaria "Sakki" Shivute ( born Sakaria "Sackey" Shivute ; genus. October 10, 1965 ) - Namibian boxer , representative of the middle weight category. He played for the Namibian boxing team in the mid-1990s, silver medalist of the All-African Games in Harare , winner of the bronze medal of the African Championship, participant in the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta .
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| Citizenship |  Namibia | |||||||
| Date of Birth | October 10, 1965 (53 years old) | |||||||
| Weight category | Medium (75 kg) | |||||||
| Growth | 180 cm | |||||||
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Biography
Sakki Sivute was born on October 10, 1965.
In 1994, he became a member of the Namibian national team and performed at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, where he was stopped in the 1/8 finals by the representative of Jamaica Delroy Henderson [1] .
A year later he visited the All-African Games in Harare , from where he brought the silver dignity award - in the final final match he lost to Algerian Mohamed Bahari [2] .
Thanks to a series of successful performances, Shivute was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . Nevertheless, he had only one single battle at the Games - already at the preliminary stage with a score of 3:12 he was defeated by the Australian Justan Crawford . Also this season, he performed at the Giraldo Cordoba Cardin international tournament in Cuba, where he reached the stage of the quarter finals.
After the Olympics, Sakki Shivute for some time remained in the Namibian boxing team and continued to take part in major international tournaments. So, in 1998, he added to the track record a bronze medal won in middleweight at the African Championship in Algeria [3] .
Notes
- β 15.Commonwealth Games - Victoria, Canada - August 18-28 1994 . amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Date of treatment March 4, 2016.
- β 6.All-Africa Games Harare, Zimbabwe September 13-23, 1995 . amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Date of treatment February 11, 2017.
- β Based on materials from the amateur-boxing.strefa.pl database
Links
- Sakki Shivute - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com