Jancen Poutoa

Jancen Poutoa

Sport
Country	Samoa
Sport	Boxing
Medal record Men's Boxing Representing  Samoa Pacific Games 2019 Apia Middleweight

Jancen Poutoa is a Samoan amateur boxer who has represented Samoa at the Pacific Games, Youth Olympic Games, and Commonwealth Games.

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

1. "Boxing Golds Evenly Shared". Olympics. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
2. "7 Gold and 1 Bronze for Samoa Boxing". Samoa Global News. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
3. Thomas Airey (6 March 2020). "Poutoa, Ioapo knocked out of Olympic boxing qualifier". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
4. "Sport: 4 more Pacific boxers bow out in Olympic qualifier". RNZ. 6 March 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
5. Gutu Faasau (13 July 2022). "SASNOC announces Team Samoa for Commonwealth Games". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
6. "Team Samoa for Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham Announced". Samoa Global News. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.