OKOTH Nicholas Okong'o

Kenya
Boxing
3 Mar 1983
38
Male
 
Kenya
KENYA

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
BOX Boxing Men's Feather (52-57kg) 17

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Kokugikan Arena
Men's Feather (52-57kg) - Preliminaries - Round of 32
#21
MGL
ERDENEBAT TERDENEBAT Tsendbaatar
3
WP
KEN
OKOTH NOKOTH Nicholas Okong'o
2
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
RankEventYearLocation
17Feather2008Beijing, CHN

World Championships
RankEventYearLocation
17Light2017Hamburg, GER
17Feather2009Milan, ITA

African Games
RankEventYearLocation
5Feather2019Rabat, MAR

African Championships
RankEventYearLocation
1Light2017Brazzaville, CGO
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Nick, Commander [because of his career as a member of the Kenya Defence Forces]. (standardmedia.co.ke, 13 Apr 2014; nation.co.ke, 26 Feb 2020)
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Armed Forces, Athlete
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Wife Rachel, son Owen [2003], daughters Delhi [2010] and Leisa-Jane [2020]
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English, Swahili
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Kenya Defence Force [KDF] [Nairobi, KEN]
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Benjamin Musa, KEN
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His brother Absolom Okinyi is a former Kenyan boxer who won a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (SportsDeskOnline, 04 Apr 2020)
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In March 2020 he felt pain in his hands after the African Olympic qualifying event in Dakar, Senegal, and took a two week break from training to recover. (citizentv.co.ke, 02 Mar 2020)

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia he collided with an opponent and sustained a deep cut to his head that required six stitches and ended his Commonwealth Games campaign. (standardmedia.co.ke, 05 Apr 2018; citizentv.co.ke, 05 Apr 2018)
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"I've been boxing for years because boxing means everything to me. I fight, earn, feed my family and educate my children from it." (olympicchannel.com, 22 Feb 2020)
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To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "My target at the Olympics is only gold. If I wanted a bronze or anything else, I wouldn't even take that journey to Tokyo." (boxingafrica.com, 30 Mar 2020)
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Kenyan boxer Robert Wangila. (propertykenya.com, 02 Apr 2008)

General Interest

Olympic qualifying results
He secured his spot at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo by winning his semifinal in the featherweight category at the African qualifying event in Dakar, Senegal. (capitalfm.co.ke, 29 Feb 2020; boxing.athlete365.org, 29 Feb 2020)

General
AGE AND EXPERIENCE
He will be age 38 when the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo are held in 2021, and has been with coach Benjamin Musa since his first Olympic campaign at the 2008 Games in Beijing. "I'm back big time in the ring and I mean business, serious business. I've been boxing for years because boxing means everything to me. I fight, earn, feed my family and educate my children from it. My being here as captain of the Kenyan team is also a source of inspiration to the young boxers. Musa is the best coach one can think about. He took me to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and now Tokyo. He understands my needs and style of boxing." (olympicchannel.com, 22 Feb 2020; capitalfm.co.ke, 29 Feb 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 01 Mar 2020)

CHILDREN
His daughters are both named after key moments in his boxing career. If his daughter who was born in 2020 had been a boy he wanted to name him after his coach Benjamin Musa, but instead named her after his and Musa's mothers. "She is Leisa-Jane Okongo. Leisa is Musa's mother, while Jane is my mother. I named my [other] daughter Delhi after my bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi." (boxingafrica.com, 24 Mar 2020)

OCCUPATION
Outside of boxing he serves in the Kenya Defence Forces. (boxingafrica.com, 30 Mar 2020; boxingafrica.com, 24 Mar 2020)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
WP:
Win on Points
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Content 2 (removed through CDN).
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