Luigi "Gino" Castiglioni (born April 8, 1967 in
San Severo
San Severo (; formerly known as Castellum Sancti Severini, then San Severino and Sansevero; locally ) is a city and comune of c. 51,919 inhabitants in the province of Foggia, Apulia, south-eastern Italy. Rising on the foot of the spur of Gargano ...
,
Apulia) is a former professional boxer from
Italy
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, who won the silver medal at the
1991 European Amateur Boxing Championships in
Gothenburg, Sweden. In the final of the
light flyweight
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Professional boxing
The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds (49 kilograms). When New York legalized boxing in 1920, ...
(– 48 kg) he was defeated by
Bulgaria
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's
Ivailo Marinov. Castiglione competed at the
1992 Barcelona Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
, but was eliminated in his first bout. He turned professional in 1993, and retired in 2002.
1992 Olympic results
* Round of 32: lost to Dong-Bum Cho (South Korea) on points, 2-8.
References
BoxingRecords
1967 births
Living people
People from San Severo
Flyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Italy
Italian male boxers
Sportspeople from the Province of Foggia
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