OKAZAWA Sewonrets Quincy Mensah

Japan
Boxing
21 Dec 1995
27
Male
1.79/5'10''

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
BOX Boxing Men’s 63.5-71Kg 1 Gold Medal

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Hangzhou Gymnasium
Men's 63.5-71Kg - Preliminaries - R16
#107
JPN
OKAZAWA SQMOKAZAWA Sewonrets Quincy Mensah
4
WP
JOR
EASHASH ZEASHASH Zeyad
1
Finished
Hangzhou Gymnasium
Men's 63.5-71Kg Quarterfinal
#155
JPN
OKAZAWA SQMOKAZAWA Sewonrets Quincy Mensah
5
WP
IND
NISHANT DEVNishant Dev
0
Finished
Hangzhou Gymnasium
Men's 63.5-71Kg Semifinal
#193
JPN
OKAZAWA SQMOKAZAWA Sewonrets Quincy Mensah
3
WP
KAZ
SHYMBERGENOV ASHYMBERGENOV Aslanbek
2
Finished
Hangzhou Gymnasium
Men's 63.5-71Kg Final
#219
TPE
KAN CWKAN Chia Wei
0
JPN
OKAZAWA SQMOKAZAWA Sewonrets Quincy Mensah
0
WO
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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RankEventYearLocation
Olympic Games
969kg2020Tokyo, JPN
World Championships
1Men's 67kg2021Belgrade, SRB
569kg2019Yekaterinburg, RUS
9Men's 71kg2023Tashkent, UZB
Asian Championships
269kg2019Bangkok, THA
9Men's 71kg2022Amman, JOR
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Cooking curry. (city, 27 Jul 2020)
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Athlete
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Law - Chuo University, Tokyo, JPN
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English, Japanese
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INSPA [Japan]
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Vladimir Shin [national], UZB
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Southpaw (city, 27 Jul 2020)
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He took up boxing in 2011 at Nihon University Yamagata Senior High School in Japan. (sports, 12 Mar 2020; sponichi, 11 Mar 2020)
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He initially competed in wrestling, but switched to boxing after beginning high school as it was recommended that he take up the sport. (sports, 12 Mar 2020)
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To win gold at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, and the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (newsdig, 27 Feb 2023; joqr, 15 Aug 2022)
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In 2020 he received an Excellence Award in the boxing category at the Japan Sports Awards in Tokyo. (jabf-revival, 27 Jan 2020)

In 2019 he was named Male Boxer of the Year by the Japan Amateur Boxing Federation [JABF]. (boxingnews, 07 Feb 2019; sponichi, 14 Sep 2020)

Additional Information

General
CONSIDERING QUITTING
In 2018 he considered quitting the sport after graduating from university because he did not believe he would make the national team, and he had received a job offer from an advertising agency. However, he saw an opening for a job as a boxing coach at the Kagoshima Amateur Sports Association club, which would enable him to continue training and competing, so he moved to Kanoya and was offered the job. "Somehow, I couldn't give up my passion for boxing. I heard from a friend that the Kagoshima association was looking for a boxing coach, so I moved to Kanoya straight away without telling my parents that I had refused the advertising job offer." (kts-tv, 20 Mar 2020; friday, 08 Apr 2020; blogs, 18 Nov 2020)

HERITAGE
He was born to a Ghanaian father and a Japanese mother in Yamagata, Japan. (Instagram profile, 28 Nov 2019; sports, 12 Mar 2020; yamagata-np, 13 Mar 2020)

Legend
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Gold Medal
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
WO:
Walkover
WP:
Win on Points