Boxing upset
NZPA Reuter A Ugandan who fled the Idi Amin regime and now lives in Sweden scored an upset victory over one of East Europe’s outstanding fighters in the Olympic boxing tournament on Monday. Shadrach Odhiambo, granted Swedish citizenship under a special dispensation after arriving in Europe less than three years ago, outpointed Poland’s Bogdan Gajda in a first series light-welterweight bout. It was the first time in the tournament that an East European had lost to an outsider, and -the result was an upset for Gajda, the 1977 European champion, considered a leading contender for a gold medal.
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Press, 23 July 1980, Page 33
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