Mac Joachim
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{{short description|Indian boxer (1925–2013)}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Mac Joachim
| full_name = Macketich Hovakimian
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| sport = Boxing
| birth_date = {{birth year|1925}}
| birth_place = Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, India
| death_date = {{death year and age|2013|1925}}
| death_place = Kingston upon Thames, London, UK
}}
Mackertich "Mac" Joachim (1925 – 2013) was an Indian boxer who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/jo/mac-joachim-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418075920/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/jo/mac-joachim-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=16 January 2018}}
Born 1925, in Calcutta, to an Armenian father who had settled there. He later settled in England where he pursued a professional boxing career. Joachim died in 2013, aged 87 or 88, in Kingston upon Thames.{{cite web |title=Mac Joachim |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/3876 |publisher=Olympedia.org |access-date=5 March 2021}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Kolkata
Category:Indian people of Armenian descent
Category:Boxers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:Boxers from West Bengal
Category:Light-heavyweight boxers
Category:Olympic boxers for India
Category:Indian emigrants to England
Category:British people of Armenian descent
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