Clemente Russo

Clemente Russo

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Born	July 27, 1982
Medal record Men's Boxing Competitor for  Italy Olympic Games Silver 2008 Beijing Heavyweight World Amateur Championships Gold 2007 Chicago Heavyweight EU Amateur Championships Gold 2005 Cagliari Heavyweight Silver 2007 Dublin Heavyweight Mediterranean Games Gold 2005 Almeíra Heavyweight

Clemente Russo (born July 27, 1982 in Marcianise, Italy) is an Italian amateur boxer best known to win Gold at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight 201 lbs limit.

Career

Russo qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in second place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. At the Games Russo, who works as a policeman and who hails from Campania, campaigned at light heavyweight. He ran right into eventual winner Andre Ward from the USA and was eliminated early.

He moved up to the 201 lbs limit and exited early at the World championships 2005 and the European championships 2006.

Then he became more successful. In 2007 he lost the EU final to Elias Pavlidis, at the World Championships he easily beat Englishman Daniel Price, 2005 medalist Alexander Povernov (PTS 17:5) and won the quarterfinals against Milorad Gajovic (Montenegro) to qualify for Beijing. He beat Chinese Yushan Nijiati to reach the finals where he edged out Russian top favorite Rakhim Chakkhiev 7:6.

In the 2008 Olympics he won the silver medal, losing the final round and so the competition to Rakhim Chakkhiev.

Winner WSB Hevyweight Individual World Champion

World Amateur championships results

2003

• Defeated Stefan Balint (Romania) 15-10
• Lost to Magomed Aripgadzhiev (Belarus) 4-14

2005

• Lost to Jasur Matchanov (Uzbekistan) 13-16

2007

• Defeated Danny Price (England) 14-5
• Defeated Lukas Viktora (Czech Republic) 17-6
• Defeated Alexander Povernov (Germany) 17-5
• Defeated Milorad Gajovic (Montenegro) 15-3
• Defeated Yushan Nijiati (China) 19-11
• Defeated Rakhim Chakkhiev (Russia) 7-6

Olympic results

2008 (as a heavyweight)

• Defeated Viktar Zuyev (Belarus) 7-1
• Defeated Oleksandr Usyk (Ukraine) 7-4
• Defeated Deontay Wilder (United States) 7-1
• Lost to Rakhim Chakkhiev (Russia) 2-4

External links

• List of exploits as a light-heavyweight

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Name	Russo, Clemente
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Date of birth	July 27, 1982
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