Emilio Correa Bayeux Júnior (born 12 October 1985) is a

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n amateur boxer best known for winning the middleweight Gold medal at the

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. He is the son of Olympic champion Emilio Correa Sr.

Career

In 2004, he lost by stoppage in the welterweight final of the World Junior Championships to

Elshod Rasulov Elshod Rasulov (born March 7, 1986) is an amateur boxer from Uzbekistan, who won gold at the 2006 Asian Games and at the 2010 Asian Games and silver at 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships. Career In 2004 the southpaw counterpuncher knocke ...

and finished third at the national senior championships. In 2005, he moved up to middleweight and won the national championships. At the World Championships, he won a bronze after losing to Russian star

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. In 2006, he lost the final of the national championships to veteran

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. At the PanAm Games 2007, he knocked out American

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, outpointed Marco Periban 34:10, beat

Carlos Góngora Carlos Góngora Mercado (born April 25, 1989) is an Ecuadorian professional boxer who held the IBO super middleweight title between 2020 and December 2021. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio in the me ...

21:13 in the semis and

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22:5 in the final. He reached the 2008 Middleweight Olympic final, where he lost a bout for gold against

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. The bout would have gone to countback had he not bitten DeGale, for which he was penalized 2 points. At the

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he was upset by Romanian

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. At the 2012 Olympic qualifier he was disqualified in his first bout and therefore didn't participate in the

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games.

Olympic results

2008 *Defeated

Jarrod Fletcher Jarrod Fletcher (born 20 October 1983) is an Australian professional boxer and a former world middleweight title challenger. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XV ...

(Australia) 17-4 *Defeated

Sergiy Derevyanchenko Serhiy Vyacheslavovich Derevyanchenko (; born 31 October 1985) is a Ukrainian professional boxer who has challenged three times for world middleweight titles; the IBF title in 2018; the IBF and IBO titles in 2019; and the WBC title in 2020. A ...

(Ukraine) 18-4 *Defeated

(Uzbekistan) 9-7 *Defeated

Vijender Singh Vijender Singh Beniwal (born 29 October 1985) is an Indian professional boxer and politician of Bharatiya Janata Party. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, becoming the first Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal. ...

(India) 8-5 *Lost to

14-16

Notes

References

External links

PanAm results 2007
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Correa, Emilio 1985 births Living people Cuban male boxers 21st-century Cuban sportsmen Middleweight boxers Olympic boxers for Cuba Olympic silver medalists for Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games gold medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2007 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Boxers from Santiago de Cuba