Carlos Góngora Mercado (born April 25, 1989) is an Ecuadorian
professional boxer
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who held the
IBO super middleweight
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Boxing
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title between 2020 and December 2021. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the
2007 Pan American Games
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in Rio in the men's
middleweight
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Boxing Professional
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division.
Amateur career
Middleweight
At the 2006 South American Games southpaw Góngora lost the final to Venezuelan
Alfonso Blanco. At the 2007 Pan American Games the then 18-year-old from
El Coca
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easily beat Blanco 20:6 in a rematch before losing to the eventual winner
Emilio Correa from Cuba in the semis 13:21.
At the
2007 World Championships he beat Ivano del Monte but ran into superstar and eventual winner
Matvey Korobov and lost when the referee stopped the contest.
At the Copa Independencia 2008 he reached the final but lost to old foe Correa 3:16. At the Olympic qualifier he lost once again to Correa but qualified nevertheless after beating fighters like
Shawn Estrada.
At the
2008 Olympics
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he won his first matches against German
Konstantin Buga and Greek
Georgios Gazis 12:1 but a surprise quarter final loss to Indian
Vijender Singh kept him from winning a medal.
Light Heavyweight
Góngora moved up to light heavyweight after the 2008 Olympics. He didn't win a medal at the
2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships
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. He won his first match against Gianluca Rosciglione 15:1, and his second against
Abdelhafid Benchebla 13:10 but lost in the quarter-final to
José Larduet 10:6.
In 2010 he beat
Yamil Peralta and
Roaner Angulo to win the
South American Games
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.
He won another bronze at the
2011 Pan American Games
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, losing to
Julio César la Cruz
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. He again did not win a medal at the
2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships
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The competition ran under the supervision of the world's governing body for amateur ...
. He beat
Osman Bravo (contest stopped due to injury) but lost his next match against
Yamaguchi Falcão (25:18).
He lost to
Marcus Browne
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Professional career
Early career
After competing a ...
at the American Olympic Qualifying Tournament but managed to
qualify for the Olympics 2012.
At the
2012 Olympics
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, Góngora won his first match against Azerbaijani
Vatan Huseynli
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. Góngora then lost his next match, in the round of 16, against Kazakh
Adilbek Niyazymbetov.
Niyazymbetov would go on to the finals.
Professional boxing record
References
External links
PanAm 2007 results
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1989 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Olympic boxers for Ecuador
Ecuadorian male boxers
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Ecuador
Pan American Games bronze medalists in boxing
South American Games gold medalists for Ecuador
South American Games silver medalists for Ecuador
South American Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 2006 South American Games
Competitors at the 2010 South American Games
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen
Boxers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games