M'tendere Makalamba (born 2 April 1966) is a former

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

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boxer. He competed at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

, where he finished in seventeenth place. He also represented Malawi at the

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, losing his opening bout to Michael Bell of

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in the

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category.

1988 Olympic results

Below is the record of M'tendere Makalamba, a Malawian light middleweight boxer who competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics: * Round of 64: bye * Round of 32: lost to Roy Jones Jr. (United States) by first-round knockout

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1966 births Living people Malawian male boxers Olympic boxers of Malawi Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Malawi Boxers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Light-middleweight boxers Middleweight boxers {{Malawi-boxing-bio-stub