John Michel Mirona (جون ميشيل ميرونا; born 1962) is a former Olympic boxer from Sudan.
Boxing career
He competed for
Sudan at the 1988 Summer Olympics in
Seoul
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, South Korea in boxing.
In
Men's Featherweight he came in tied for 17th.
He received a bye in the first round, and was defeated by
Ya'acov Shmuel of
Israel
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in the second round.
Shmuel
knocked out
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Mirona in their 125.5-lb bout at 1:15 of the first round.
References
Living people
1962 births
Featherweight boxers
Sudanese male boxers
Olympic boxers for Sudan
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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