Clemente Russo (born 27 July 1982) is an

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, best known for winning gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight (201 lbs limit). He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the

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league. He also signed up for the AIBA professional league, the APB, which launched in autumn 2013.

Personal life

Russo works as a police officer. He is married to former international

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competitor Laura Maddaloni; they have a daughter.

Career

Russo qualified for the

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by finishing in second place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in

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. At the Games Russo, who works as a policeman and who hails from

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, fought at light heavyweight. He ran right into eventual winner

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from the USA and was eliminated early. He moved up to the 201 lbs category and exited early at the World championships 2005 and the European championships 2006. In 2007 he lost the European Championships final to

Elias Pavlidis Elias Pavlidis (born May 4, 1978, in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk), sometimes written Helias or Ilias Pavlidis, is a Greek amateur boxer best known to compete at the Athens Olympics 2004. He was born in Russia. Career At the 2003 World Championship ...

, at the World Championships he easily beat Englishman Daniel Price, 2005 medalist

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(PTS 17–5) and won the quarterfinals against

Milorad Gajović Milorad Gajović (born July 27, 1974) is a Montenegro, Montenegrin amateur boxing, boxer who qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics as a Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Heavyweight, heavyweight. He has also had some success as an amateur ...

(Montenegro) to qualify for Beijing. He beat Chinese

Yushan Nijiati Yushan Nijiati (Үсен Нижат born June 1, 1986) is a Chinese amateur boxer of Kazakh ancestry best known for winning the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in the 201 lb/91 kg division. Career He lost to eventual win ...

to reach the finals where he edged out Russian top favorite

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7–6. In the 2008 Olympics he won the silver medal, losing the final round and so the competition to Rakhim Chakkhiev. In the

he boxes for Italia Thunder team. He received the "Winner WSB Heavyweight Individual World Champion 2011" and "Winner WSB Team World Champion 2012" awards. Outside of his athletic career, in 2011 Russo debuted as an actor in the drama film '' Tatanka''. At the

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, Russo again won the silver medal, losing the final to

Oleksandr Usyk Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk ( uk, Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович У́сик; born 17 January 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WB ...

.81 91kg heavyweight men
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World Amateur Championships results

2003 *Defeated Stefan Balint (Romania) 15–10 *Lost to Magomed Aripgadzhiev (Belarus) 4–14 2005 *Lost to

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(Uzbekistan) 13–16 2007 *Defeated Danny Price (England) 14–5 *Defeated Lukas Viktora (Czech Republic) 17–6 *Defeated

(Germany) 17–5 *Defeated

(Montenegro) 15–3 *Defeated

(China) 19–11 *Defeated

(Russia) 7–6

Olympic results

2008 (as a heavyweight) *Defeated

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(Belarus) 7–1 *Defeated

(Ukraine) 7–4 *Defeated

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(United States) 7–1 *Lost to

(Russia) 2–4 2012 (as a heavyweight) *Defeated

Tumba Silva Tumba Silva (born April 20, 1986 in Luanda) is an Angolan boxer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's heavyweight, but lost in a walkover to Clemente Russo in the first round after missing the weigh-in In boxing, a weight clas ...

(Angola) *Defeated Jose Larduet (Cuba) *Defeated

Teymur Mammadov Teymur Mammadov (born 11 January 1993) is a heavyweight amateur boxer from Azerbaijan. He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics and reached quarterfinals at the 2016 Games, where he served as the flag bearer for Azerbaijan during the Parade of ...

(Azerbaijan) 7–1 *Lost to

(Ukraine) 2016 (as a heavyweight) *Defeated Hassen Chaktami (Tunisia) *Lost to Evgeny Tishchenko (Russia) 0–3

References

External links

List of exploits as a light-heavyweight
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