Clemente Russo - Revision history

Notforforumposting: why would he be best known for winning 2008 olympic silver but not 2012? lost close final to usyk in london, probably with many more watching. the guy he lost to in beijing didn't accomplish anything on world level in pros.

2022-08-08T10:02:36Z

why would he be best known for winning 2008 olympic silver but not 2012? lost close final to usyk in london, probably with many more watching. the guy he lost to in beijing didn't accomplish anything on world level in pros.

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	'''Clemente Russo''' (born July 27, 1982 in Marcianise, Italy) is an Italian amateur boxer best known for winning a silver ~~medal~~ in the heavyweight class at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. Russo also won a gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships in the heavyweight division.		'''Clemente Russo''' (born July 27, 1982 in Marcianise, Italy) is an Italian amateur boxer best known for winning silver medals in the heavyweight class at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympic games. Russo also won a gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships in the heavyweight division.

	== Career ==		== Career ==

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			'''Clemente Russo''' (born July 27, 1982 in Marcianise, Italy) is an Italian amateur boxer best known for winning a silver medal in the heavyweight class at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. Russo also won a gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships in the heavyweight division.

			== Career ==
			At the Olympics in 2004 Russo, who works as a policeman and who hails from Campania, campaigned at light heavyweight. After a first round bye, he ran right into eventual winner [[Andre Ward]] from the USA and was eliminated early on a 17-9 decision..

			He moved up to the 201 lbs limit and exited early at the world championships 2005 and the European championships 2006.

			In 2007 at the World Championships he easily beat Englishman [[Daniel Price]], 2005 medalist [[Alexander Povernov]] (PTS 17:5) and won the quarterfinals against [[Milorad Gajovic]] (Montenegro) to qualify for Beijing. He beat Chinese [[Yushan Nijiati]] to reach the finals where he edged out Russian top favorite [[Rakhim Chakhkeiv]] 7:6.

			== World Amateur championships results ==
			'''2003''' (as a light heavyweight)
			*Defeated [[Stefan Balint]] (Romania) 15-10
			*Lost to [[Mahamed Aripgadzhiev]] (Belarus) 4-14

			'''2005''' (as a heavyweight)
			*Lost to [[Jasur Matchanov]] (Uzbekistan) 13-16

			'''2007''' (as a heavyweight)
			*Defeated [[Danny Price]] (England) 14-5
			*Defeated [[Lukas Viktora]] (Czech Republic) 17-6
			*Defeated [[Alexander Povernov]] (Germany) 17-5
			*Defeated [[Milorad Gajovic]] (Montenegro) 15-3
			*Defeated [[Yushan Nijiati]] (China) 19-11
			*Defeated [[Rakhim Chakhiyev]] (Russia) 7-6

			'''2009''' (as a heavyweight)
			*Defeated [[Julio Castillo]] (Ecuador) 16-1
			*Defeated [[Vasiliy Levit]] (Kazakhstan) 14-4
			*Lost to [[Egor Mekhontsev]] (Russia) 5-7

			'''2013''' (as a heavyweight)
			*1st round bye
			*Defeated [[Levan Guledani]] (Georgia) 3-0
			*Defeated [[Jim Andreasen]] (Denmark) 3-0
			*Defeated [[Marko Calic]] (Croatia) 3-0
			*Defeated [[Teymur Mammadov]] (Azerbaijan) 3-0
			*Defetaed [[Evgeny Tishchenko]] (Russia) 3-0

			== Olympic results ==
			'''2004''' (as a light heavyweight)
			*Lost to [[Andre Ward]] (United States) 9-17

			'''2008''' (as a heavyweight)
			*Defeated [[Viktar Zuyev]] (Belarus) 7-1
			*Defeated [[Oleksandr Usyk]] (Ukraine) 7-4
			*Defeated [[Deontay Wilder]] (United States) 7-1
			*Lost to [[Rakhim Chakhkiev]] (Russia) 2-4

			'''2012''' (as a heavyweight)
			*Defeated [[Tumba Silva]] (Angola) Walk-Over
			*Defeated [[José Larduet]] (Cuba) 10-12
			*Defeated [[Teymur Mammadov]] (Azerbaijan) 13-15
			*Lost to [[Oleksandr Usyk]] (Ukraine) 14-11

			'''2016''' (as a heavyweight)
			*1st round bye
			*Defeated [[Hassen Chaktami]] (Tunisia) 3-0
			*Lost to [[Evgeny Tishchenko]] (Russia) 0-3

			== Notes ==
			This article borrows from Russo's article in Wikipedia: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemente_Russo]]
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			[[Category:Olympic Silver Medalists]]
			[[Category:Italian Olympians]]
			[[Category:2004 Olympians]]
			[[Category:2008 Olympians]]
			[[Category:2012 Olympians]]
			[[Category:2016 Olympians]]
			[[Category:World Amateur Champions]]

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