George Ian Stankovich is a former New Zealand

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. Stankovich won a bronze medal for his country in the heavyweight division at the

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. He won his first bout against the Kenyan boxer Joseph Kabegi, but then lost in the semifinal against the eventual gold medallist, Julius Awome from England.

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