OKAZAWA Sewonrets Quincy Mensah

Date of Birth: 21 Dec 1995

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Place of birth: YAMAGATA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : KANOYA

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Boxing	Men's Welter (63-69kg)	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Kokugikan Arena	Men's Welter (63-69kg) - Preliminaries - Round of 32 #23 JPN OKAZAWA SQMOKAZAWA Sewonrets Quincy Mensah 5 WP IND KRISHAN VKRISHAN Vikas 0	Finished
	Kokugikan Arena	Men's Welter (63-69kg) - Preliminaries - Round of 16 #100 CUB IGLESIAS RIGLESIAS Roniel 3 WP JPN OKAZAWA SQMOKAZAWA Sewonrets Quincy Mensah 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Welter	2019	Yekaterinburg, RUS

Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Welter	2019	Bangkok, THA

Cooking curry. (city.sumida.lg.jp, 27 Jul 2020)

Occupation:

Law - Chuo University, Tokyo, JPN

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Kagoshima Amateur Sports Association [Japan]

Vladimir Shin [national], UZB

Southpaw (city.sumida.lg.jp, 27 Jul 2020)

He took up boxing in 2011 at Nihon University Yamagata Senior High School in Japan. (sports.nhk.or.jp, 12 Mar 2020; sponichi.co.jp, 11 Mar 2020)

He initially competed in wrestling, but switched to boxing after beginning high school as it was recommended that he take up the sport. (sports.nhk.or.jp, 12 Mar 2020)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (fnn.jp, 20 Mar 2020; friday.kodansha.co.jp, 08 Apr 2020)

In 2020 he received an Excellence Award in the boxing category at the Japan Sports Awards in Tokyo. (jabf-revival.com, 27 Jan 2020)

In 2019 he was named Male Boxer of the Year by the Japan Amateur Boxing Federation [JABF]. (boxingnews.jp, 07 Feb 2019; sponichi.co.jp, 14 Sep 2020)

General Interest

Olympic qualifying results
He secured a spot for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo when he finished fifth in the welterweight category at the 2020 Asia and Oceania qualifying tournament in Amman, Jordan. (yomiuri.co.jp, 11 Mar 2020)

General
CONSIDERING QUITTING
In 2018 he considered quitting the sport after graduating from university because he did not believe he would make the national team, and had received a job offer from an advertising agency. However, he saw an opening for a job as a boxing coach at the Kagoshima Amateur Sports Association club, which would enable him to continue training and competing, so he moved to Kanoya and was offered the job. "Somehow, I couldn't give up my passion for boxing. I heard from a friend that the Kagoshima association was looking for a boxing coach, so I moved to Kanoya straight away without telling my parents that I had refused the advertising job offer." (kts-tv.co.jp, 20 Mar 2020; friday.kodansha.co.jp, 08 Apr 2020; blogs.mbc.co.jp, 18 Nov 2020)

HERITAGE
He was born to a Ghanaian father and a Japanese mother in Yamagata, Japan. (Instagram profile, 28 Nov 2019; sports.nhk.or.jp, 12 Mar 2020; yamagata-np.jp, 13 Mar 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
WP:: Win on Points

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