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Sakti Mazumdar

Indian boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2023
Entity authorityQ9332835 ↗
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Sakti Mazumdar (13 November 1931 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian boxer. He competed in the men's flyweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In his first fight he beat Nguyen Van Cua of Vietnam by walkover, before being eliminated by Han Soo-ann of South Korea. He died on 21 May 2021 from a heart attack in his home in the Ballygunge area of Kolkata.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sakti Mazumdar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.