Joseph Hilongwa Jermia (born September 18, 1981) is a
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
Boxer or boxers may also refer to:
Animal kingdom
* Boxer crab
* Boxer shrimp, a small group of decapod crustaceans
* Boxer snipe ee ...
from
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
, who participated in the
2004 Summer Olympics for his native
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
n country. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the
light flyweight (48 kg) division by
Russia
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's eventual bronze medal winner
Sergey Kazakov.
Jermia won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the
All-Africa Games in
Abuja, Nigeria
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.
References
sports-reference
1981 births
Living people
Flyweight boxers
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Namibia
Namibian male boxers
African Games bronze medalists for Namibia
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
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