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Full name | Pazuka Dickson Wamwiri Wanjiku | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Moi’s Bridge, Kenya | 24 December 1984||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 6 September 2020 Nairobi, Kenya | (aged 35)||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 58 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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P. Dickson Wamwiri Wanjiku (24 December 1984 – 6 September 2020) [1] was a Kenyan taekwondo practitioner. [2] Wamwiri qualified for the men's 58 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after winning the championship title from the African Qualification Tournament in Tripoli, Libya. [3] He lost his preliminary match to defending world and Olympic champion Chu Mu-yen of Chinese Taipei, with a final score of 0–7. [4] [5]