Erislandy Savón

Erislandy Savón Cotilla (born July 21, 1990) is a Cuban heavyweight amateur boxer. He won the 91 kg/201 lbs title at the 2008 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships, the 2009 Pan American Championships at Super Heavyweight and also the AIBA World Boxing Championships 2015 and 2017 in Heavyweight.

Erislandy Savón
Personal information
Full nameErislandy Savón Cotilla
NationalityCuban
Born (1990-07-21) July 21, 1990
Guantánamo, Cuba
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classHeavyweight
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Cuba
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2016 Rio de JaneiroHeavyweight
World Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 HamburgHeavyweight
Silver medal – second place2015 DohaHeavyweight
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place2015 TorontoHeavyweight
Gold medal – first place2019 LimaHeavyweight
Pan American Championship
Gold medal – first place 2017 TegucigalpaHeavyweight
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold medal – first place2014 VeracruzHeavyweight
Gold medal – first place2018 BarranquillaHeavyweight
Youth World Championships
Gold medal – first place2008 GuadalajaraHeavyweight

Career

Savón who hails from Guantánamo is a nephew of Félix Savón and also a big puncher. He won the Youth World Championships 2008.[1] At the National Championships he lost the 91 kg/201 lbs semifinal 2008 to Osmay Acosta 3:6 and was disqualified in 2009.

Savon won his first senior title at the 2009 PanAmerican Championships against Juan Hiracheta [2] He was sent to the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships at Super Heavyweight instead of national champion Robert Alfonso, beat two unknowns but lost to the eventual runner-up Roman Kapitonenko in his third bout.[3]

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he ran into an even bigger puncher and was stopped by the future champion Magomedrasul Majidov, but qualified for the Olympics. He did not participate in the 2011 Pan American Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he lost his opening match to Anthony Joshua.[4]

He won the bronze medal at the men's heavyweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[5] He beat Lawrence Okolie and Yamil Peralta before losing to Vasily Levit.[4]

References
  1. WorldJuniors 2008
  2. PanAm2009
  3. WorldChamps2009 Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Erislandy Savon Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  5. "Erislandy Savon". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.


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