- Emilio Correa
Emilio Correa Bayeux, Jr. (born
October 12 ,1985 ) is aCuba n amateur boxer best known to win the middleweight Gold medal at the PanAm Games 2007. He's the son of Olympic champion Emilio Correa Sr..Career
In 2004 he lost in the welterweight final of the World Junior Championships to
Elshod Rasulov by stoppage and finished third at the national senior championships.In 2005 he moved up to middleweight and won the national championships and at the World Championships he won a bronze after losing to Russian star
Matvey Korobov .In 2006 he lost the final of the national championships to veteran
Yordanis Despaigne .At the PanAm Games 2007 he knocked out American
Shawn Porter , outpointed Marco Periban 34:10, beatCarlos Gongora 21:13 in the semis andArgenis Nunez 22:5 in the final.He has reached the 2008 Middleweight Olympic final where he lost bout for gold against
Great Britain 'sJames DeGale . The bout would have gone to countback had he not bitten DeGale, for which he was penalized 2 points.Olympic results
2008
*DefeatedJarrod Fletcher (Australia) 17-4
*DefeatedSergiy Derevyanchenko (Ukraine) 18-4
*DefeatedElshod Rasulov (Uzbekistan) 9-7
*DefeatedVijender Kumar (India) 8-5
*Lost toJames DeGale 14-16External links
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/PanamericanGames2007.html PanAm results 2007]
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