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Nojim Maiyegun

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Name
  
Nojim Maiyegun

Role
  
Boxer


Martial art
  
Division
  
Light middleweight


Olympic medals
  
Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Light middleweight

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Nojim Maiyegun (born February 21, 1944 in Lagos) is a retired Nigerian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the men's Light Middleweight (71 kg) category at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

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He was Nigeria's first Olympic medalist. He revealed his loss of vision in 2012.

References

Nojim Maiyegun Wikipedia