Tumat Sogolik

Tumat Sogolik
Born	Tumat Sogolik Papua New Guinea
Nationality	Papua New Guinea
Statistics
Weight class	Bantamweight
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Medal record Men's Boxing Representing  Papua New Guinea Commonwealth Games 1978 Edmonton Bantamweight

Tumat Sogolik (born 5 May 1955) is a Papua New Guinean boxer. He represented his country in the bantamweight division at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He won his first match over Samuel Meck. He lost his second match against Chul Soon-Hwang.[1]

He later competed in boxing in the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. He won silver in the Bantamweight division after losing to Barry McGuigan of Northern Ireland. Tumat presently lives on Tsoi Island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

References

1. "Tumat Sogolik Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
2. "How fight with 'an absolute beast' made Barry McGuigan a household name | Sport". The Guardian. 2014-08-20. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
3. "Sports Hall of Fame Inductee - Tumat Sogolik". Pngolympic.org. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
4. Troy Taule (1955-05-05). "Tumat Sogolik now a member of Sports Hall of Fame". Loop PNG. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
5. "So many great fighters shared Common touch - - Mirror Online". Mirror.co.uk. 2010-10-02. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
6. Ingrid Gascoigne (2009). Papua New Guinea. Marshall Cavendish. p. 109. ISBN 9780761434160. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
7. Paul Rowan (2014-07-20). "Ring of fire". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved 2017-01-06.