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Waruinge NAKAYAMA
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Super-Bantamweight
Male
(Philip Waruinge)
Kenya, based in Japan, Osaka
Born: February 3, 1945, Murang'a (Fort Hall), Murang'a County, Kenya
Died: October 19, 2022, Lanet, Nakuru City, Nakuru County, Kenya
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as an amateur:
Philip Waruinge represented Kenya
in many international championships including the:
1962 Africa Boxing Championship,
1962 Commonwealth Games, Australia,
1964 Olympics Games, Tokyo, Japan
1964 African Boxing Championship, Ghana,
1965 All African Games, Congo-Brazaville,
1966 African Boxing Championship, Nigeria,
1966 Commonwealth Games, Jamaica,
1968 African Boxing Championship, Zambia,
1968 Olympics games, Mexico,
1970 Commonwealth Games, Scotland
1972 Olympic Games, Munich, Germany.
Waruinge is the first African boxer to win
the coveted Val Barker Trophy at the 1968 Olympics Games
He later became a professional boxer in Japan
where he was nicknamed 'Nakayama'.
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Amateur Results| | | 1964 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | |
| Tokyo, Japan, Olympic Games preliminaries, 57 kg | + Oct. 13 |  Alfonso Frazer (PAN) | Tokyo, Japan | WKO 1 | | - Oct. 17 | Heinz Schulz | Tokyo, Japan | LPTS 5:0 | | | | 1965-1967
No activity recorded | | | | 1968 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | |
| Mexico City, Mexico, Olympic Games bronze medal, 57 kg | + Oct. 15 |  Jean-Paul Anton (FRA) | Mexico City, Mexico | WPTS 5:0 | | + Oct. 17 | Mohamed Sourour | Mexico City, Mexico | WPTS 5:0 | | + Oct. 22 | Miguel Garcia | Mexico City, Mexico | WPTS 4:1 | | - Oct. 24 | Antonio Roldan | Mexico City, Mexico | LPTS 3:2 | | Waruinge is the first African boxer to win the coveted Val Barker Trophy | | | | 1969-1971
No activity recorded | | | | 1972 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | |
| Munich, West Germany, Olympic Games silver medal, 57 kg | + Aug. 29 | Jabbar Feli | Munich, West Germany | WPTS 4:1 | | + Sept. 3 | Mohamed Salah Amin | Munich, West Germany | WPTS 5:0 | | + Sept. 7 | Jouko Lindberg | Munich, West Germany | WPTS 4:1 | | + Sept. 8 | Clemente Rojas | Munich, West Germany | WPTS 3:2 | | - Sept. 10 |  Boris Kuznetsov | Munich, West Germany | LPTS 3:2 |
Professional record| | | 1973 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | | + July 27 | Kimio Shindo | Osaka, Japan | W 8 | | - Sept. 21 | Joe Malonso | Agana, Guam | TKO by 6 | | - Oct. 26 | Ushiwakamaru Harada | Kanazawa, Japan | L 10 | | + Dec. 20 | Osamu Toku | Osaka, Japan | W 10 | | | | 1974 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | | - Feb. 17 | Panther Koh | Seoul, South Korea | L 10 | | + Mar. 20 | Osamu Toku | Chiba City, Japan | W 10 | | = Apr. 27 | Tomoharu Eda | Kyoto, Japan | Draw 10 | | + June 28 | Hiroshi Nunose | Osaka, Japan | KO 5 | | - Aug. 4 | Sanjo Takemori | Tokyo, Japan | L 10 | | + Oct. 10 | Kenji Endo | Osaka, Japan | KO 7 | | + Nov. 28 | Ernie Timbal | Osaka, Japan | KO 8 | | | | 1975 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | | + Feb. 7 | Kwang Won Lee | Osaka, Japan | TKO 7 | | + Apr. 7 | Seiichi Eto | Osaka, Japan | W 10 | | Japanese Super-Bantamweight Title | | + June 27 |  Hisami Numata | Tokyo, Japan | W 10 | | + Sept. 30 | Shinobu Fujita | Osaka, Japan | KO 8 | | Japanese Super-Bantamweight Title | | + Nov. 21 | Yoshihiro Shikauchi | Yamanashi City, Japan | W 10 | | Japanese Super-Bantamweight Title | | | | 1976 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | | - Apr. 3 | Rigoberto Riasco | Panama City, Panama | TKO by 9 | | vacant WBC Super-Bantamweight Title | | + June 14 | Futaro Tanaka | Osaka, Japan | W 10 | | Japanese Super-Bantamweight Title | | + Sept. 2 | Hisami Mizuno | Osaka, Japan | W 10 | | Japanese Super-Bantamweight Title | | - Nov. 13 |  Carlos Zarate | Culiacan, Mexico | KO by 4 | | WBC Bantamweight Title | | | | 1977 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | | - Jan. 30 | Yu Kasahara | Tokyo, Japan | KO by 2 | | Japanese Super-Bantamweight Title | | - July 16 | Yu Kasahara | Wakayama, Japan | KO by 9 | | Japanese Super-Bantamweight Title | | + Sept. 1 | Tsuyoshi Okabe | Osaka, Japan | KO 9 | | - Oct. 13 | Go Mifune | Osaka, Japan | TKO by 7 | | | | 1978 | | Date | Opponent | Place | Result | | - Feb. 1 | Kosei Kawaguchi | Tokyo, Japan | L 10 |
Summary
Total bouts: 25, Won: 14 (6 inside the limit), Lost: 10 (6 inside the limit), Draw: 1, NC: 0, ND: 0
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