 Complete the following phrase:  After moving up a weight class to bantamweight, his first international competition was the 2015 Indian Ocean Island Games in Réunion. He eliminated the local favorite, Jordan Rodriguez, before defeating Sitrakiniazina Rakotamanga of Madagascar in by way of uimous decision UD for the surprise gold medal. A few weeks later, he suffered a first-round exit from the 2015 African Championships at the hands of eventual silver medallist Bilel Mhamdi. In 2016, he was not selected to compete at the African Olympic Qualification Tournament in Cameroon, but did become national champion for the first time. Vadamootoo won four straight fights at the 2017 African Championships in Brazzaville to take home the gold medal, becoming the first African bantamweight champion from Mauritius since Bruno Julie ten years before. He went on to make an appearance at the 