Legendary coach Mwarangu to be buried Tuesday

Legendary boxing coach Peter Mwarangu will be buried at Lang'ata Cemetery on Tuesday next week.

The secretary of the Boxing Federation of Kenya (BFK) David Munuhe said a funeral service will be held at ACK Church Madaraka on the same day.

He coached the Kenyan boxing team for 40 years from the 60’s to the 90’s guiding Kenyan boxers to win a record eight gold medals at the 1987 All Africa Games (now African Games) held in Nairobi.

In 1988 he coached Kenya ‘Hit Squad’ to the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea where Kenya’s Robert Wangila became the first African to win a gold medal at the Olympics.

As a boxer, he floored Kenya’s most decorated pugilist Philip Waruinge (who died on October 19, 2022) to take the national bantamweight title in 1962.