Quincy Saul Detenamo (born 8 March 1979) was an

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weightlifter who was found guilty of manslaughter in Australia.

Biography

Quincy Detenamo was born in Buada,

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. He was one of only a few athletes who represented his country at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. He competed as a weightlifter when his weight was 168 pounds.Quincy Detenamo
mini bio, sports-reference.com, accessed April 2010 He was in the

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weightlifting team and his cousin,

Itte Detenamo Itte Junior Ronson Detenamo (born 22 September 1986 in Buada) is a Nauruan weightlifter competing in the +105 kg category. Detenamo represented Nauru at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, finishing 14th in the men's 105+kg category. He ...

, also competed at a later Olympics. Detenamo was placed 20th overall at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games in the Men's Middleweight division. Detenamo also competed in

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division. The championship took place in

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and he was placed 22nd. In 2002 Detenamo was at the

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in Manchester but was placed 14th. In 2005 he was found guilty following the death of Grace Ilardi, a 39-year-old prostitute on 17 July 2004. Her post mortem indicated that she had been beaten and strangled and he was charged with murder but he was eventually convicted of

manslaughter Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes said to have first been made by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th ce ...

. Detenamo had left the country following the murder but was arrested when he returned.Olympian guilty of prostitute's manslaughter
Peter Gregory, The Age, 14 October 2005, accessed April 2010 Detenamo showed some remorse, but he was sentenced to nine years and assured that he would serve seven of these.

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