Emilio Correa (boxer born 1985)

Emilio Correa Bayeux Júnior[lower-alpha 1] (born 12 October 1985) is a Cuban amateur boxer best known for winning the middleweight Gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. He is the son of Olympic champion Emilio Correa Sr.

For his father, the Olympic boxer from the 1970s, see Emilio Correa (boxer born 1953).

Emilio Correa Jr.
Personal information
Full nameEmilio Correa Bayeux Júnior
Born (1985-10-12) 12 October 1985
Santiago de Cuba
Sport
SportBoxing
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Cuba
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Middleweight
World Amateur Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Mianyang Middleweight
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio Middleweight
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Middleweight

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, beat Carlos Góngora 21:13 in the semis and Argenis Nunez 22:5 in the final.

He has reached the 2008 Middleweight Olympic final where he lost bout for gold against Great Britain's James DeGale. The bout would have gone to countback had he not bitten DeGale, for which he was penalized 2 points.[1]

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he was upset by Romanian Bogdan Juratoni.

At the 2012 Olympic qualifier[2] he was disqualified in his first bout and therefore didn't participate in the London games.

Olympic results

2008

References
  1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Correa and the second or maternal family name is Bayeux.

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Emilio Correa, Jr". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  2. "American Olympic Qualifier - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - May 5-12 2012". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl.


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