Vincenzo Picardi (born October 20, 1983 in

Casoria Casoria (; nap, Casòria) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about northeast of Naples. Casoria borders the following municipalities: Afragola, Arzano, Cardito, Casalnuovo d ...

) is an Italian professional boxer best known for winning a bronze medal in the flyweight division both at the

2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships The 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Chicago, United States from October 23, 2007 to November 3, 2007. It was held at the UIC Pavilion. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history. The competition is under the supe ...

in Chicago and at the 2008 Olympics. He failed to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing in third place at the

3rd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament The 3rd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament was held in Gothenburg, Sweden from April 20 to April 25, 2004. The top two in each weight category gained qualification into the 2004 Summer Olympics. Medal winners Qualified Flyweigh ...

in Gothenburg, Sweden. At the 2006 European Championships he lost in the first round to favorite

Samir Mammadov Samir Mammadov ( az, Samir Məmmədov; born May 15, 1988) is a boxer from Azerbaijan, who won the silver medal in the men's flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 2006 European Championships in Bulgaria and bronze at the 2007 World Champ ...

. A year later at the 2007 World Championships he reached the semis, where he lost to Thai star

Somjit Jongjohor Somjit Jongjohor ( th, สมจิตร จงจอหอ, , ; born January 19, 1975) is an amateur Thai boxer best known for winning gold medals in the flyweight division at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships and at the Beijing 200 ...

(2:13). At the Boxing at the 2008 Summer Olympics he again lost to Jongjohor. At the 2009 Worlds in his own country he lost his first bout to a Mongolian. He won the bronze medal at the

2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held at the Megasport Sport Palace in Moscow, Russia from June 4 to June 13, 2010. It was the 38th edition of this biennial competition organised by the European governing body for amateu ...

in Moscow, Russia after he lost to

Misha Aloyan Mikhail Surenovich Aloyan (russian: Михаил Суренович Алоян; born 23 August 1988) is a Russian professional boxer who challenged for the WBO bantamweight title in 2018. As an amateur flyweight Aloyan won gold medals at the ...

from

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in the Semis.

Olympic games results

2008 (as a flyweight) *Defeated Cassius Chiyanika (Zambia) 10-3 *Defeated Juan Carlos Payano (Dominican Republic) 8-4 *Defeated Walid Cherif (Tunisia) 7-5 *Lost to

(Thailand) 1-7 2012 (as a flyweight) * First round bye * Lost to

Tugstsogt Nyambayar Tugstsogt Nyambayar ( mn, Нямбаярын Төгсцогт, translit=Nyambayaryn Tögstsogt; born 23 June 1992) is a Mongolian professional boxer who held the IBO featherweight title in 2019 and challenged for the WBC featherweight title i ...

(Mongolia) 16-17

World amateur championships results

2005 (as a flyweight) *Defeated

Toshiyuki Igarashi is a Japanese boxer and a former WBC, '' The Ring'' and Lineal Flyweight World Champion. Amateur career He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was stopped in the first round of the men's ...

(Japan) 29-9 *Lost to

(Azberbaijan) 19-36 2007 (as a flyweight) *Defeated Kadri Kordel (Turkey) 22-7 *Defeated

Katsuaki Susa is a Japanese boxer who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the flyweight division (– 52 kg). He is an alumnus of the Toyo University, and is Second lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. Susa took the bronze medal t ...

(Japan) 24-14 *Defeated Anuruddha Rathnayake (Sri Lanka) 23-4 *Lost to

(Thailand) 2-13 (semifinal)

References

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* * * 1983 births Sportspeople from the Province of Naples Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Italy Flyweight boxers Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Living people Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Italian male boxers Boxers at the 2015 European Games European Games silver medalists for Italy European Games medalists in boxing AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Boxers of Fiamme Oro 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-boxing-bio-stub