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. Uutoni competes at the 48 kg weightclass and qualified for the

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Professional boxing record

Sources

Results of 2006 Commonwealth Games - Boxing, 48 Kg

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Namibian Sport Year in Review, 22 December 2006, Namibian.com.na (see sports section)

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* 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Windhoek Olympic boxers for Namibia Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Boxers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Namibia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Namibia Place of birth missing (living people) Namibian male boxers Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Light-flyweight boxers 20th-century Namibian people 21st-century Namibian people Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{Namibia-boxing-bio-stub