James Borja
Guamanian sports administrator
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James Borja is a Guamanian sports administrator, spearfishing manager and former spearfisher. He was Guam's Chef de Mission at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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| Nationality |  Guam | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Spearfishing | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Career
At the 2006 Micronesian Games, he won a silver medal in the team spearfishing event.[1] At the 2014 Micronesian Games, he won a gold medal in the team spearfishing event.[2]
Borja as president of the Marianas Underwater Fishing Federation was the tournament director of the 2017 Inter-Pacific Spearfishing Competition, the first to be hosted in Guam.[3] Borja stated that "twenty years ago, it was a dream to compete in the Inter-Pacific [Spearfishing Competition] and spearfish with some of the best in the world" and that now it was a "reality for Guam".[3]
He succeeded his brother Kenneth Borja as Guam's spearfishing manager at the 2018 Micronesian Games leading his team to victory.[4][5] He repeated this success at the 2024 Micronesian Games.[6] He was Guam's Chef de Mission at the 2024 Summer Olympics in which they sent eight competitors in six sports, their joint largest delegation since the 1996 Summer Olympics.[7][8]