Luiz Gabriel do Nascimento Chalot de Oliveira (born 24 January 2001 in

São Caetano do Sul São Caetano do Sul (or São Caetano) ('' Saint Cajetan of the South''. ) is a city in São Paulo state in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 161,957 (2020 est.) in an area of 15.33 km2. It is the ci ...

) is a Brazilian

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. He is the grandson of Olympic medalist Servílio de Oliveira.

Career

At the

2018 Summer Youth Olympics The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held ...

held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won a bronze medal in the Boys' flyweight. With the halt of international events due to the COVID pandemic, Oliveira was unable to score in the world rankings and his qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games was made impossible. When the competitions returned, the IBA, the world boxing organization that takes care of Olympic sports, decided, a few weeks before the continental pre-Olympics for which Oliveira was qualified, that the best ranked athletes would go to Tokyo. Outside of Tokyo, Luiz Oliveira began preparing for Paris 2024. At the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia, he won two fights, but in the round of 16, lost to

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in the

Featherweight Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling. Boxing Professional boxing History A featherweight boxer weighs in at a limit of . In the early days of the division, this ...

category. At the 2022 Boxing Continental of the Americas in Guayaquil, he obtained the gold medal in the featherweight division, defeating world champion

. At the

2022 South American Games The XII South American Games (Spanish: ''XII Juegos Suramericanos Asunción 2022'') was a multi-sport event held between 1–15 October 2022 in Asunción, Paraguay. The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization, the Paraguaya ...

held in Asunción, Paraguay, he won a gold medal in the Featherweight (57 kg) category. At the 2023 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, he won his first fight, but in the round of 16, lost to

Asror Vohidov Asror Akramkhanovich Vohidov (born 20 October 1995) is a Tajikistani professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2011 Junior World Championships, and later competed at the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games The 2018 Asian Games ( id, ...

in the

category. At the

2023 Pan American Games The 2023 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2023, links=no), officially the XIX Pan American Games and commonly known as Santiago 2023, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, s ...

held in Santiago, Chile, he won a bronze medal in the 57 kg category. Um dia perfeito: boxe brasileiro garante três medalhas nos Jogos Pan-americanos
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliveira, Luiz Gabriel 2001 births Living people Brazilian male boxers Sportspeople from São Paulo (state) Boxers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Pan American Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil South American Games gold medalists for Brazil South American Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2022 South American Games 21st-century Brazilian people