10 Things You Didn’t Know About Ellis Chibuye

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Athens, GREECE: Ellis Chibuye (R) of Zambia Bulent Ulusoy (L) of Turkey exchange blows in their preliminary 69 kg Welterweight Olympics match at the Peristeri Boxing Hall 15 August 2004 in Athens. Ulusoy was awarded 45-32 points decision. AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
  1. Ellis Chibuye (born January 14, 1980) is a boxer from Zambia.
  2. He was born in Ndola.
  3. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native African country.
  4. There he was stopped in the first round of the Welterweight (69 kg) division by Turkey’s Bülent Ulusoy.
  5. Chibuye qualified for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in second place at the 2nd AIBA African 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gaborone, Botswana.
  6. He won 2 awards in the same year.
  7. In the final he was defeated by Uganda’s Sadat Tebazaalwa.
  8. Chibuye won the bronze medal in the same division one year earlier, at the All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria.
  9. Elias besides boxing loved fishing.
  10. Chibuye had a wife and children .
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