Eridadi Mukwanga

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Name Eridadi Mukwanga Martial art Boxing Height 1.6 m		Died 1998 Role Boxer
Olympic medals Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics - Bantamweight People also search for Chang Kyou-chul, Valeriy Sokolov, Eiji Morioka

Eridari Mukwanga (12 July 1943 – January 1998) was a Ugandan boxer, silver medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

He was the first athlete representing Uganda to win an Olympic medal.

Amateur Highlights

Bantamweight silver medalist at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Results were:

Defeated Roberto Cervantes (Mexico) points

Defeated Chang Kyou-Chul (Korea) points

Lost to Valerian Sokolov (Soviet Union) TKO-2

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