Who was TUMAT SOGOLIK?

Trevor
23/04/2015

Tumat was the first to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games after the cooutnry became Papua New Guinea. He won a Silver Medal in 1978, at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.

 

Tumat Sogolik was a bantamweight (amateur) boxer from Kavieng.

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Note: Boxer Kenneth Hopkins won Bronze in the 1962 Commonwealth Games but the country was not called PNG. In 1972, the name of the territory was officially changed to Papua New Guinea thus Tumat Sogolik was the first from PNG to win a medal from the Commonwealth games.

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