Philip Waruinge

Philip Waruinge ( born February 3, 1945 in Kenya ) is a former Kenyan boxer. Waruinge won the bronze medal of the 1968 Olympics and silver medalist at the 1972 Olympics.

Amateur

Waruinge won in 1962 at the age of 17, his first international medal. At the Commonwealth Games in Perth, he won the bronze medal in the flyweight (-51 kg). Two years later, at the African Championships in Accra, he won the gold medal in the Featherweight ( -57 kg ), which he also qualified for the taking place in the same year the Olympics. In these he resigned after a victory over the later WBA champion Alfonso Frazer, Panama (KO 1), in the second round to eventual bronze medalist Heinz Schulz, DDR (5-0 ) from.

1965 Waruinge won the inaugural Pan-African Games in Brazzaville and the year after the Commonwealth Games in Kingston and the African Championships in Lagos. With another victory at the African Championships in 1968, he qualified for the second time for the Olympics. This time reached Waruinge after victories over Jean -Paul Anton, France (5-0 ), Mohamed Sourour, Morocco (5-0 ), and Miguel Garcia, Argentina, the semi-finals. This he lost to eventual Olympic champion Antonio Roldán, Mexico ( 3:2 ), and won an Olympic bronze medal.

In 1970 Waruinge turn the Commonwealth Games. In the 1972 Olympics he reached after beating Jabbar Feli, Iran ( 4-1 ), Salah Mohamed Amin, Egypt ( 5:0 ), Jouko Lindberg, Finland ( 4:1), and Clemente Rojas, Colombia (3:2 ), the final, which he compared Boris Kuznetsov, Soviet Union ( 3-2 ), lost and thus won the Olympic silver medal.

Professional

1973 Waruinge turned pro in Japan under the name Waruinge Nakayama. His professional career began fairly mixed. Of his first 12 fights he won only 7 and ended a draw. 1975 Waruinge Japanese master. This title he defended two more times in the same year before in 1976 a fight for the vacant WBC world title against Rigoberto Riasco, Panama ( TKO 9 ) lost. In the same year received another shot at the title against the undefeated world champion Carlos Zárate, which, however, already beat him in the fourth round KO. The very next fight he lost his Japanese title and finished after more unsuccessful attempts again to get a title shot in 1978 his career with a professional record of 14 wins, 10 losses and one draw.