Jancen Poutoa is a Samoan amateur boxer who has represented Samoa at the Pacific Games, Youth Olympic Games, and Commonwealth Games.
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country |  Samoa | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina he came 4th in the middleweight class after losing to Thailand's Weerapoon Jongjoho.[1]
At the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia he won gold in the middleweight division.[2] In March 2020 he lost his opening bout at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament and so failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.[3][4]
On 14 July 2022 he was selected as part of Samoa's team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ "Boxing Golds Evenly Shared". Olympics. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ "7 Gold and 1 Bronze for Samoa Boxing". Samoa Global News. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Thomas Airey (6 March 2020). "Poutoa, Ioapo knocked out of Olympic boxing qualifier". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ "Sport: 4 more Pacific boxers bow out in Olympic qualifier". RNZ. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Gutu Faasau (13 July 2022). "SASNOC announces Team Samoa for Commonwealth Games". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ^ "Team Samoa for Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham Announced". Samoa Global News. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
 | This biographical article related to Samoan boxing is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |