{{Short description|Kenyan boxer (born 1963)}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson |birth_date={{b-da|20 June 1963}} |birth_place=Nairobi, Kenya |medaltemplates={{MedalSport | Men's Boxing}} {{MedalCountry | {{KEN}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalGold| 1990 Auckland | Light Heavyweight}} }}
'''Joseph Mukuku Akhasamba'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/4288 |title=Joseph Akhasamba |website=Olympedia |publisher=OLYMadMen |access-date=January 4, 2022}}</ref> (born 20 June 1963 in Nairobi) is a Kenyan retired professional boxer who held the African heavyweight title from 1998 to 1999. As an amateur, he represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. He won the gold medal in the men's light heavyweight division (– 81 kg) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ak/joseph-akhasamba-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418091942/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ak/joseph-akhasamba-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Joseph Akhasamba}}
==External links== * {{boxrec|id=15426}}
{{Footer Commonwealth Champions Light Heavyweight}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Akhasamba, Joseph}} Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Kenyan male boxers Category:Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic boxers for Kenya Category:Heavyweight boxers Category:Light-heavyweight boxers Category:Boxers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Kenya Category:African Boxing Union champions Category:Boxers from Nairobi Category:Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Category:20th-century Kenyan sportsmen Category:21st-century Kenyan sportsmen Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in boxing
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