Heimata Neuffer
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Heimata Neuffer (died 13 November 2020)[1] was a French Polynesian heavyweight boxer who represented French Polynesia at the Pacific Games.
Neuffer was from Raiatea and worked as a police officer.[1] The son of boxer Pascal Neuffer, he began boxing at an early age.[2]
In 2011 he was selected as part of the Tahitian team for the Cadet World Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan.[3] The following year he was sent to Los Angeles to train.[4]
At the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby he won gold in the heavyweight division.[2] In 2016 he competed in the French Amateur Boxing Championships,[2] losing in the final to Mickael Robert.[5] Following this he was selected to join the Pôle France Boxe at the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance in Paris.[6]
At the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Port Vila he had to compete under the banner of the Pacific Games Council due to the disaccreditation of the Polynesian Boxing Federation,[7] but won gold.[8] At the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia he won bronze.[9]
He was killed in a car accident in Raiatea on 13 November 2020.[1][10] In June 2021 the driver of the vehicle was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to five years imprisonment.[11]
