Michael Kenny (boxer)
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Born | Lower Hutt, New Zealand | 19 June 1964||||||||||||||
Died | 17 July 2024 | (aged 60)||||||||||||||
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Michael Vincent Noel James Kenny (19 June 1964 – 17 July 2024) was a New Zealand heavyweight boxer, who won the gold medal in the men's super heavyweight (+ 91 kg) division at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. He also represented his native country at 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, falling in the second round to Dodovic Owini from Uganda. Kenny died on 17 July 2024, at the age of 60.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Commonwealth Games boxing gold medallist Michael Kenny dies". The Post. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
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Categories:
- 1964 births
- 2024 deaths
- Super-heavyweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for New Zealand
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand
- Boxers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Lower Hutt
- New Zealand male boxers
- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
- Oceanian boxing biography stubs
- New Zealand sportspeople stubs