Erislandy Savón Cotilla (born July 21, 1990) is a Cuban heavyweight amateur boxer. He won the 91 kg/201 lbs title at the 2008 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships, the 2009 Pan American Championships at Super Heavyweight and also the AIBA World Boxing Championships 2015 and 2017 in Heavyweight.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Erislandy Savón Cotilla |
| Born | July 21, 1990 Guantánamo, Cuba |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Boxing |
| Weight class | Heavyweight |
Medal record | |
Career
editSavón who hails from Guantánamo is a nephew of Félix Savón and also a big puncher. He won the Youth World Championships 2008.[1] At the National Championships he lost the 91 kg/201 lbs semifinal 2008 to Osmay Acosta 3:6 and was disqualified in 2009.
Savon won his first senior title at the 2009 PanAmerican Championships against Juan Hiracheta [2] He was sent to the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships at Super Heavyweight instead of national champion Robert Alfonso, beat two unknowns but lost to the eventual runner-up Roman Kapitonenko in his third bout.[3]
At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he ran into an even bigger puncher and was stopped by the future champion Magomedrasul Majidov, but qualified for the Olympics. He did not participate in the 2011 Pan American Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he lost his opening match to Anthony Joshua.[4]
He won the bronze medal at the men's heavyweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[5] He beat Lawrence Okolie and Yamil Peralta before losing to Vasily Levit.[4]
References
edit- ^ WorldJuniors 2008
- ^ PanAm2009
- ^ WorldChamps2009 Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Erislandy Savon Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ^ "Erislandy Savon". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
External links
edit- Boxing record for Erislandy Savón from BoxRec (registration required)
- Erislandy Savón at AIBA.org (archived)
- Erislandy Savón at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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