2026年8月24日 / 美国东部时间早上7:36 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
南非警方周一表示，他们已逮捕四人，与上周遭枪击身亡的两届拳击世界冠军佐拉尼·泰特的谋杀案有关。
现年38岁的泰特于周五晚间在东开普省恩丹赞内的家中下车时遭到袭击。警方称，当时与他同乘一辆车的一名27岁女子幸免于难，但已被送往医院。
南非体育部于周五晚间证实了泰特的死讯。
警方在一份声明中表示，周末被捕的四名嫌疑人年龄在22岁至28岁之间。其中一人已被正式指控谋杀。
2015年3月6日，在英国利物浦回声竞技场举行的IBF超蝇量级世界冠军赛中，南非选手佐拉尼·泰特击倒保罗·巴特勒。比赛终止后泰特获胜。彼得·伯恩/美联社
据哥伦比亚广播公司体育频道报道，泰特的职业拳击生涯开局取得13胜0负，随后获得首次挑战世界冠军金腰带的机会。在IBF蝇量级头衔战中，他被南非同胞莫鲁蒂·姆塔莱恩击败，错失了首次夺冠机会。此次失利后，他取得了12连胜，跻身拳击界最优秀、最具观赏性的选手行列。
泰特于2014年夺得IBF超雏量级世界冠军头衔，2017年斩获WBO雏量级世界冠军。
2017年，他以仅11秒的用时，用第一记重拳击倒对手西博尼索·戈尼亚，成功卫冕WBO雏量级冠军，就此载入拳击史册。这是世界冠军赛中最快的击倒胜利。
2017年11月18日，在北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特SSE竞技场举行的“弗莱普顿重生”拳击赛中，佐拉尼·泰特在WBO雏量级世界冠军战中击倒西博尼索·戈尼亚。查尔斯·麦奎尔/盖蒂图片社
2023年，英国反兴奋剂机构对泰特处以四年禁赛处罚，禁赛期于2024年7月29日结束，当时他正准备重返职业拳坛。
“南非失去了该国有史以来最优秀的拳手之一，”体育部长盖顿·麦肯齐在一份声明中说道。
“他当时正为重返拳台进行训练，”麦肯齐表示，“他相信自己仍能为国家贡献力量。他的想法没错，但如今他已没有机会了。他，还有我们所有人，都被剥夺了一切。”
4 arrested after world champion boxer Zolani Tete shot dead, woman injured in South Africa
August 24, 2026 / 7:36 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
South African police said Monday they arrested four people in connection with the murder of two-time boxing world champion Zolani Tete, who was gunned down last week.
Tete, 38, was attacked on Friday evening as he returned to his home in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape province. A 27-year-old woman who was with him in the car survived but is in the hospital, police said.
The South African Department of Sport confirmed Tete’s death Friday night.
The four suspects arrested over the weekend are aged between 22 and 28, police said in a statement. One has been formally charged with murder.
Zolani Tete of South Africa knocks down Paul Butler in their IBF Super-Flyweight Championship of the World fight at the Echo Arena, Liverpool, England, on March 6, 2015. Tete won the bout after the fight was stopped. Peter Byrne/AP
Tete started his professional career 13-0 before receiving his first shot at world championship gold, according to CBS Sports. Tete lost that first championship opportunity when he was stopped by fellow South African Moruti Mthalane in their IBF flyweight title bout. Shortly after the loss, a 12-fight winning streak launched him into the ranks of boxing’s best and most exciting fighters.
Tete won the IBF junior-bantamweight world title in 2014 and the WBO bantamweight world title in 2017.
In 2017, he entered boxing history when he took just 11 seconds to knock out his opponent, Siboniso Gonya, with his first punch to retain his WBO bantamweight crown. It was the fastest knockout victory in a world championship bout.
Zolani Tete knocks out Siboniso Gonya during their WBO Bantamweight Championship of the World title fight on the Frampton Reborn boxing bill at SSE Arena Belfast on Nov. 18, 2017, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
In 2023, the U.K. Anti-Doping Agency hit Tete with a four-year ban that ended on July 29 and he was preparing to return to professional boxing.
“South Africa has lost one of the finest fighters it has ever produced,” Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie said in a statement.
“He was training for a return to the ring,” McKenzie said. “He believed he still had something to give this country. He was right, but he will not get the chance now. He, and all of us, have been robbed.”
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