Roberto Cammarelle (born 22 March 1980) is an Italian

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, best known for winning the

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in 2007 (Chicago) and 2009 (Milan) as a

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and a

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at the

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. He won a silver medal in 2012 London Olympic Games, losing to

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Biography

Roberto Cammarelle was born in Cinisello Balsamo (

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

), from Lucanian parents, his father Angelo Cammarelle is from

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and his mother Giovanna Caraffa from

Filiano Filiano ( Lucano: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is bounded by the comuni (Municipalities,) of Atella, Avigliano, Forenza, Ripacandida, San Fele San Fele ( nap, Sandə ...

. He is a member of the

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Amateur medals

He also won a Super Heavyweight bronze medal at the

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and a silver medal at the

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. The southpaw also won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in

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. He is 190 cm tall and weighs 103 kg.

Amateur highlights

*Italian Heavyweight Champion 2000/2001, Italian Super Heavyweight Champion 2002-2007 *1998 competed as a Heavyweight at the Junior World Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina **Lost to

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(Germany) PTS (4-12) *2002 2nd place at the European Championships in Perm, Russia as a Superheavyweight **Defeated Peter Yatsura (Slovakia) PTS **Defeated Gaga Bolkvadze (Georgia) PTS **Defeated Artyom Tsarikov (Ukraine) PTS **Lost to

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(Russia) PTS *2002 2nd place at the Military World Championships in Curragh, Ireland **Lost to

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(Germany) PTS (7-16) *2004 2nd place at the European Championships in Pula, Croatia **Defeated

(Germany) RSC **Defeated Csaba Kurtuzs (Hungary) RSCO **Defeated David Price (Great Britain) PTS **Defeated Sergey Rozhnov (Bulgaria) PTS **Lost to

(Russia) PTS *2004 won the Military World Championships in Fort Huachcua, United States *2004 3rd place at the Athens Olympics. **Defeated

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(Nigeria) PTS (29-13) **Defeated

Alexey Mazikin Oleksiy Mazikin (born 16 February 1975) is a Ukrainian boxer best known to win the silver medal at the 2001 World Championships in the Men's Super Heavyweight division. Amateur Mazikin was a successful amateur but kept losing to southpaws. At ...

(Ukraine) PTS (23-21) **Lost to

(Russia) PTS (18-31) *2005 3rd place at the World Championships in Mianyang, China **Defeated Ivica Bacurin (Croatia) RSCO **Defeated

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(Belarus) RSCO **Defeated Michael Wilson (United States) RSCO-1 **Lost to Roman Romanchuk (Russia) PTS (27-34) *2006 competed at the European Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria **Defeated

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(Sweden) DSQ-3 **Lost to

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(Russia) PTS (21-36) *2007 won the World Championships in Chicago, USA **Defeated

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(Albania) PTS (20-2) **Defeated José Payares (Venezuela) PTS (27-4) **Defeated

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(Bulgaria) PTS (12-5) **Defeated David Price (Great Britain) walk-over **Defeated

(Russia) walk-over **Defeated

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(Ukraine) PTS (24-14) *2008 Beijing Olympics **Defeated Marko Tomasović (Croatia) PTS (13-1) **Defeated

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(Colombia) PTS (9-5) **Defeated David Price (Great Britain) RSC-2 **Defeated

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(China) RSC-4 *2009 won the World Championships in Milan, Italy **Defeated Roman Kapitonenko (Ukraine) PTS (10:5) **Defeated Viktar Zuyeu (Belarus) RET (1:0) **Defeated

(Bulgaria) PTS (12:6) **Defeated Rok Urbanc (Slovenia) PTS (14:0) **Defeated Michael Hunter (USA) PTS (8:1) *2010 competed at the European Championships in Moscow, Russia **Defeated Marcin Rekowski (Poland) 12-2 **Lost to Sergey Kuzmin (Russia) PTS (3-6) *2011 2nd place at the European Championships in Ankara, Turkey **Defeated Viktor Zuyev (Belarus) RSCH 2 **Defeated

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(France) 22-9 **Defeated Istvan Bernath (Hungary) 18-6 **Defeated

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(Romania) RET 2 **Lost to Magomed Omarov (Russia) 14-20 *2011 Competed at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan **Defeated

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(Venezuela) 17-8 **Defeated

Con Sheehan Cornelius "Con" Sheehan (born 3 March 1989) is an Irish boxer from Clonmel, Ireland. As an amateur the became the youngest ever Irish Elite Heavyweight champion going on to win a total of a six Irish Elite titles, four at heavyweight and two a ...

(Ireland) RET 3 **Lost to

(Great Britain) 13-15 *2012 London Olympics **Defeated Ytalo Perea Castillo (Ecuador) **Defeated Mohammed Arjaoui (Morocco) **Defeated

Magomedrasul Medzhidov Mahommedrasul Majidov ( az, Məhəmmədrəsul Məcidov) (born 27 September 1986) is an Azerbaijani Professional boxing, professional boxer. As an amateur he won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics and gold at the 2011, 2013 and 2017 AIBA World Box ...

(Azerbaijan) **Lost to

(Great Britain) (UK) *2013 3rd place at the World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan **Defeated

(France) 3-0 **Defeated

(Sweden) 3-0 **Defeated Filip Hrgovic (Croatia) 3-0 **Lost to

(Azerbaijan) 0-3

References

External links

Roberto Cammarelle Amateur Career
(in Spanish) compiled by Pedro Cabrera Isidrón of the Cuban Olympics Committee * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cammarelle, Roberto Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Italy Olympic gold medalists for Italy Olympic bronze medalists for Italy 1980 births People of Lucanian descent Living people Super-heavyweight boxers Olympic medalists in boxing Olympic silver medalists for Italy Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Italian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Boxers of Fiamme Oro