Fine Sani
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| Nationality | Tongan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 November 1959 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
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Fine Sani Vea (born 19 November 1959) is a Tongan boxer.[1] He competed in the men's light heavyweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, losing his first bout to Georgică Donici of Romania.[2] Sani won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1982 Commonwealth Games while representing Fiji despite not having Fijian citizenship.[3][4]
Honours
[edit]- National honours
Order of Queen Sālote Tupou III, Member (31 July 2008).[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fine Sani". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Fine Sani Vea". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ GRAHAM GROOM (17 October 2017). THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES. Lulu.com. pp. 176–. ISBN 978-0-244-94031-7.
- ^ Rogers, Thomas (2 July 1984). "SPORTS WORLD SPECIALS; Tonga's Team". New York Times. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ "Royal orders presented at Palace". Matangi Tonga. 1 August 2008. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
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Categories:
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Light-heavyweight boxers
- Fijian male boxers
- Tongan male boxers
- Olympic boxers for Tonga
- Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Fiji
- Boxers at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing
- Members of the Order of Queen Sālote Tupou III
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Oceanian boxing biography stubs
- Fijian sportspeople stubs
- Tongan sportspeople stubs