Emilio Correa (boxer born 1985)

Emilio Correa Bayeux (born 12 October 1985) is a Cuban boxer. He won the silver medal at the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008, a bronze medal at the World Amateur Championship in 2005 and winner of the Pan American Games, 2007, both at middleweight.

Career

Emilio Correa Bayeux grew up in Havana. As the son of the Olympic champion in boxing from Munich 1972 welterweight Emilio Correa Vaillant him the way to boxing was practically predetermined. His father was his first coach. Meanwhile, Emilio Correa trained in the power center of the Cuban boxing federation in Havana. As early as 2003 he showed his great talent. He won this year, inter alia, the Copa Roberto Balado, named after the former Cuban Olympic gold medalist and multiple world champion Roberto Balado. In the final, he defeated the Weltergewichtes this Erislandi Lara on points.

As a Cuban junior champion in 2004, he started in the same year at the Junior World Championships in Jeju / South Korea at welterweight. After four victories, he stood there in the final battle the Uzbeks Elshod Rasulow against and defeated by this crash in the 2nd round. He thus became Vice World Champion. In the same year he was already at the Cuban Seniors Championship at the start, but lost in the semifinals against Erislandi Lara and finished 3rd.

At the beginning of 2005, he won his first Cuban Championship titles in the seniors. He had now moved up to the middleweight division. In the final he defeated this Yudiel Napoles on points. After the Cuban Emilio Correa championships won two heavily-stocked international tournaments. Usti nad Labem In the final, he won over Alexei Shcherbakov from Russia by points ( 17:14 ) and in the final of the Tournament Giraldo Córdova Cardín in Havana, he defeated his compatriot Yordanis Despaigne on points. He started then also with chemistry Cup in Halle ( Saale) and was defeated there, surprisingly in the semifinals of the young German Eduard Gutknecht in the 2nd round by demolition. Then Emilio Correa took in the Brazilian Teresopolis his first international title. He was Pan-American middleweight champion with wins over Andrew Fermin, Trinidad, Marco Periban, Mexico and Carlos Negron of Puerto Rico. In the following World Amateur Championship in Mianyang in China Emilio Correa won on Adonis Stevenson from Canada to points ( 34:20 ), then abort winner over Andras Nagy from Hungary, won over Qi Jing from China by points ( 30:12 ), won Andranik Hakobyan from Armenia over by abort in the 3rd round and was defeated in the semifinals to eventual champion Matvey Korobov from Russia by points ( 25:49 ). By reaching the semi-finals he won a world championship bronze medal.

How strong is the competition Cuban Emilio Correa had to experience in 2006, because he could not defend his Cuban champion. In the final he was defeated by Yordanis Despaigne on points. For this he was able to hold in the so-called third Cuban Olympiad in Havana, a well-staffed international tournament, harmless. He won there in the middleweight division with a points victory ( 12:5 ) in the final of the William Ordiz from Cuba. At the World Cup in 2006 in Baku, a tournament of the best national teams in the world, won Emilio Correa Ruslan Safjulin from Kazakhstan and Demetrius Andrade from the United States each on points, but lost again the world champion Matvey Korobov from Russia fairly clearly on points ( 9: 22).

The year 2007 began for Emilio Correa with a success. He was the second time Cuban middleweight champion with a points victory over Yudiel Napoles. Then he won again at the tournament Giraldo Córdova Cardín where he defeated with Yordanis Despaigne, Julio Iglesias and Luis Enrique García three Cuban lace boxer. A surprise experienced Emilio Correa then the qualifying tournament for the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, where he lost in the semifinals against Marco Periban from Mexico on hit tie of 30:30 due to the total number of hits on points, with his 3rd place but for the could qualify Pan American Games. At the Pan American Games themselves, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Emilio Correa was in top shape. He defeated there Shanon Porter from the United States by KO in the 2nd round and later won over Marco Periban ( 34:10 ), Carlos Gongora of Ecuador ( 21:13 ) and Argenis Nunez from the cathedral. Rep. ( 22:5 ), respectively convincingly on points and was therefore the winner at the Pan - American games in 2007 at middleweight.

The year 2007 was not yet at an end. First, waited a bitter disappointment to him because he could not go to the starting line at the sporting highlight of the year, the 2007 World Championships in Chicago. The reason was that the Cuban sports channel, probably canceled at the behest of governance, participation in the World Championship for security reasons. The real reason was probably that at the Pan - American Games in Rio de Janeiro, the world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and Lara Erislandi had withdrawn from the Cuban team and wanted to continue on to Germany, where she wanted to be a professional boxer. Under pressure from the Cuban government but both boxers were arrested by the Brazilian police with the flimsy reason, their visas had expired and transported back to Cuba. Erislandi Lara has already been demonstrated in a further attempt to escape from Cuba to Germany. As punishment for the behavior of their team-mates, the boxer of the Cuban team then were not allowed to compete at the World Championships in Chicago. The so-called security reasons were advanced only because Cuban boxers started often in competitions in the United States without here ever would have occurred safety problems. In reality, probably put the fear of the Cuban governance behind that other Cuban boxers would flee to Chicago.

Emilio Correa was able to qualify in 2007 in Port of Spain in Trinidad yet registered to participate in the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing. He won the local tournament in the middleweight division with wins over Yamaguchi Falcao of Brazil, Ezequiel Maderna, Argentina, Clarence Johnson, VIS and Carlos Gongora. In the team event of the Cuban Emilio Correa defeated power centers then the conclusion of the eventful year 2007, the entire Cuban middleweight elite. He suggested doing Arisnoide Despaigne, Carlos Medina, Raudel Acosta, Yudiel Napoles and José Chapotin.

In the Cuban Emilio Correa Championships 2008 won his third title. In the final he outclassed here Arisnoide Despaigne with 18:1 hits. He then won in Plovdiv at the so-called Strandja Tournament with victories over Georgios Gazis, Greece, Savas Kaya, Turkey, James DeGale of England and Mladen Manew, Bulgaria. In the sparse Pan - American Championships in Cuenca / Ecuador, he won over Samuel Rogers, VIS and Yamaguchi Falcao and thus the tournament.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in August 2008, he won against Jarrod Fletcher, Australia ( 17:4 ), Serhiy Derewjantschenko, Ukraine ( 18:4 ), Elshod Rasulow, Uzbekistan ( 9:7 ) and Vijender Kumar, India ( 8:5 ) on points and was thus in the final against James DeGale of England, against whom he, not umunstritten, on points lost ( 14:16 ) and thus won the silver medal.

In October 2008, he was on his punching hand ( right hand ) surgery, which he had already begun during the Olympic tournament. In his first international appearance, Batalla de Carabobo the tournament in Venezuela in June 2009, he was defeated in the final battle the Venezuelan Alfonso Blanco ( 2:3 ).

At the World Championships in September 2009 in Milan, he was unable to attend due to the not yet fully recovering from injury. His place in the Cuban squadron was adopted by youth world champion Rey Eduardo Recio. However, in the same year he won the Pan American Games.

The beginning of 2010 denied Correa multiple choice competitions of which he won and so zurückerkämpfte the square of the number one in the Cuban middleweight. At the Pan American Championships in the same year, however, he dropped out in the semifinals.

Correa won the 2011 Pan American Games, but had to be at the World Championships in the second round Bogdan Jura Toni, give Romania ( 26:24 ), beaten. Later in the year he lost in the Cuban Championship in the final against Luis Ramon. At the U.S. Olympic qualifying tournament the following year, Correa lost in the second round against Junior Castillo, Dominican Republic ( DQ 1 ), and thus failed to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

International success

Countries fighting

Cuban Championship

Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, welterweight, to 69 kg middleweight, up to 75 kg body weight

Swell

• Trade journal Box Sport from 2003 to 2008
• Website " sports123.com "
• Site " amateur boxing.strefa.pl "
• Website " radionuevitas.co.cu "

• Boxer ( Cuba)
• Olympian (Cuba)
• Cuban
• Born in 1985
• Man