Clemente Russo
Russo at the 2016 Olympics
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27 July 1982 Caserta, Italy |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Amateur boxing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | G.S. Fiamme Oro, Rome Milano Thunder |
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| Coached by | Giulio Coletta Michele Caldarella |
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Medal record
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Clemente Russo (born 27 July 1982) is an Italian amateur boxer best known for winning Gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight (201 lbs limit). He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the World Series of Boxing league. He has also signed up for the new AIBA professional league, the APB, which will launch in autumn 2013.
Russo works as a police officer. He is married to the former international judo competitor Laura Maddaloni, they have a daughter Rosy.
Russo qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by finishing in second place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. At the Games Russo, who works as a policeman and who hails from Campania, fought at light heavyweight. He ran right into eventual winner Andre Ward from the USA and was eliminated early.
He moved up to the 201 lbs category and exited early at the World championships 2005 and the European championships 2006.
In 2007 he lost the European Championships final to Elias Pavlidis, at the World Championships he easily beat Englishman Daniel Price, 2005 medalist Alexander Povernov (PTS 17–5) and won the quarterfinals against Milorad Gajović (Montenegro) to qualify for Beijing. He beat Chinese Yushan Nijiati to reach the finals where he edged out Russian top favorite Rakhim Chakkhiev 7–6.
In the 2008 Olympics he won the silver medal, losing the final round and so the competition to Rakhim Chakkhiev.
In the World Series of Boxing he boxes for Italia Thunder team. He received the "Winner WSB Heavyweight Individual World Champion 2011" and "Winner WSB Team World Champion 2012" awards.
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