Dick KATENDE

Super-Welterweight Male Uganda, Naguru Born: October 24, 1959, Naguru Quarters, Kampala District, Uganda Died: August 2, 2016, Naguru, Kampala District, Uganda (His death was very much speculative, reports claim he slipped and hit his head on a hard surface at his home in Naguru. The fall turned out to be fatal.) (Hassan Khalil, Katende's coaching fellow at the Naguru-based East Coast Boxing Club, told Daily Monitor that Katende died after collapsing in his bathroom at night.)

as an amateur:

1977, 1978, 1981 and 1982 Ugandan middleweight champion
1979 Nairobi, Kenya, East and Central Africa Championships silver medal
1981 in Zambia, Africa Championships gold medal

An injury he had sustained on his right eye culminated into a tone retina.
After three surgeries in as many years, the last being at Morphil Hospital, London,
doctors advised him to quit boxing.

Katende coached the Bombers’ team which won
two gold medals at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
He also coached Olympic teams in 2000 and 2004.
He was summoned again in 2014, winning two bronze medals
at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.