Carlos Góngora
Carlos Góngora Mercado ( born April 25, 1989 in Esmeraldas ) is an Ecuadorian boxer. Góngora was a participant of the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012 and winner of the South American Games in 2010.
Career
Carlos Góngora began at an early age in Napo with the boxes. He developed rapidly and has been training since he was 16 at the training center of the Ecuadorian boxing federation in Quito. His coach is Cirilo Lopez.
At age 17, he took part in the Pan -American Junior Championship in Buenos Aires, where she won a middleweight with wins over Félix Valera from the Dominican Republic and Pablo Farias from Argentina the title. In the same year he also participated already in the seniors at several tournaments. He won, for example, in the middleweight division at the Copa Romana in La Romana (Dominican Republic) with wins over L. González from Venezuela, Wilky Compfort from Haiti and Argenis Nunez from the Dominican Republic. Also at the 2006 Games in South America Buenos Aires, he started with the seniors and won there in the middleweight division against Pedro Calla from Peru, before he was defeated in the finals against world class boxer Alfonso Blanco from Venezuela on points.
In the Pan -American Games in 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, he fought at middleweight and landed an unexpected point victory over Alfonso Blanco, who clearly failed with 20:6 hits. In the semi finals of this championship he lost to Emilio Correa junior from Cuba and came thus to the 3rd place. At the World Championships the same year in Chicago Carlos Gongora won the middleweight On Ivano del Monte from Italy ( 29:22 ) and Ezequiel Maderna of Argentina ( 18:13) respectively on points. But In the second round he lost to the experienced Matvey Korobov Russians, the 2005 World Champion, by termination in the 3rd round.
2008 qualified Carlos Góngora in Port of Spain to participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing. He reached the final, where he lost to Emilio Correa points in the qualifying tournament. In Beijing, he showed very good performance in the middleweight division and won about Konstantin Buga from Germany and Georgios Gazis of Greece convincingly on points. But in the quarter-finals he lost a bit surprising the Indian Vijender Kumar, which he resigned and finished 5th.
In 2009, Carlos Góngora moved to the next higher weight class, the light heavyweight division. In this weight class he competed at the World Championships in Milan, where he was defeated by victories over the Italians Gianluca Rosciglione and the Algerians Abdelhafid Benchabla in the quarter-finals on points (6-10) against José Larduet from Cuba.
In the Americas 2010 Games Góngora won with a final victory over Roamer Angulo, Colombia (9:1), the gold medal. This year, he also fought for Los Angeles in the World Series of Boxing, where he won two of three fights.
2011 saw the launch Cóngora at Pan American Games, but failed in the first fight against the eventual gold medalist Julio Cesar La Cruz, Cuba ( 19:9 ). Something similar happened to him at the World Championships this year, in which he in the first round against Yamaguchi Falcao, Brazil ( 25:18 ), lost.
In order to still qualify despite these failures for the 2012 Olympics, Góngora participated in the U.S. Olympic qualification tournament in Rio de Janeiro, where he finished in third place and thus achieved the qualification. The London Olympics ended for him after a narrow victory over Vatan Huseynli, Azerbaijan ( 9:8 ), but already in the second round with a defeat against the eventual silver medalist Ädilbek Nijasymbetow, Kazakhstan ( 13:5 ).
International success
Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, Middleweight, up to 75 kg u.Halbschwergewicht, to 81 kg body weight
Swell
- Website " www.amateur - boxing.strefa.pl "
- Trade journal Box Sports