- Washington Silva
Washington Luís da Silva (b. February 05 or 25,
1978 inSão Paulo ) is aBrazil ian amateur boxer best known to participate in the 2004 Olympics and qualifying for 2008 at light-heavyweight. He is the uncle ofHamilton Ventura but only five years older.
=Career= Whashington silva is a good fighter but is not only best fighter in brazil disputed position nunber 1 for alexsandro cardoso in Light heavyweight brasilian position silvas won(2x 0 )for carodoso is clalifing for championship panamerican gamesAt the 2003 PanAm Games he lost toArgenis Casimiro Núñez .2004 he qualified for the Olympics but lost in the first round 22:27 to
Ali Ismayilov , seeBoxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Light heavyweight .At the 2005 World Championships he almost medaled when he lost his quarterfinal to
Artak Malumyan only on countback.At the 2007 PanAm Games in his native Brazil he lost in the quarterfinal to
Christopher Downs .At the 2008 Olympic qualifier in Trinidad he lost to Puerto Rico's
Carlos Negron but upset Christopher Downs for the third qualifying spot.In Beijing he defeatedAzea Augustama andBastir Samir then he was shut out by IrishKenneth Egan .External links
* [http://esporte.uol.com.br/olimpiadas/brasileiros/boxe/washingtonsilva.jhtm Brazilian article, data]
* [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/bra/Washington+Silva/1719032 Yahoo]
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