BOXER Sapok Biki has never met his namesakes but he is proud to be associated with the four Sarawakians who were named after him on the day they came into the world on one glorious Sunday 23 years ago.
That was back in September 1998 when Sapok delivered a surprise boxing gold medal for Malaysia in the Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games.
Sapok’s victory was the least expected despite the fact that he was riding on a wave of a feel-good momentum created by athletes of the Malaysian contingent in the Games held in their own backyard for the first time.
Sapok managed to beat the four-time African champion Kinyua Moses of Kenya in the men’s below 48kg final and to date, he is still the only Malaysian to win a boxing gold medal in the Commonwealth Games.
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