Robeisy Ramírez

Robeisy Ramírez
Personal information
Nationality Cuba
Born (1993-12-20) December 20, 1993
Cienfuegos, Cuba
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Country  Cuba
Sport Boxing
Event(s) Flyweight, Bantamweight
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals 2012, 2016
Highest world ranking 1
Medal record
Representing  Cuba
Olympic Games
2012 LondonFlyweight
2016 Rio de JaneiroBantamweight
Pan American Games
2011 Guadalajara Flyweight
Central American and Caribbean Games
2014 Veracruz Bantamweight
Youth Olympic Games
2010 SingaporeBantamweight
AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships
2010 Baku Bantamweight

Robeisy Eloy Ramírez Carrazana (born December 20, 1993) is an amateur boxer from Cienfuegos, Cuba. A product of the highly renowned Cuban School of Boxing, Ramirez is a two time Olympic gold medalist.

In the flyweight boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he beat Nyambayaryn Tögstsogt to claim his first Olympic gold medal.[1] In the bantamweight boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he beat Shakur Stevenson to claim his second Olympic gold medal.

Biography

Ramirez was born in Cienfuegos.

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he routed his first opponents but was edged out by eventual Russian champion Misha Aloyan. Nevertheless, Ramirez qualified for the Olympics. At the 2011 Pan American Games, he won gold in the flyweight division.

He won the gold medal in the men's bantamweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Ramirez won four matches; beating Shiva Thapa, Mohamed Hamout, Zhang Jiawei, and Murodjon Akhmadaliev to get to the final. Robeisy beat American favorite Shakur Stevenson 2-1 in the final match to win his second Olympic gold. On July 5, 2018, he decides not to continue with the team that trained in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes face to the XXIII Central American and Caribbean Games of Barranquilla.

Personal life

Ramirez is married and has a daughter. After capturing his second Olympic championship, Ramirez plans on pursuing a 3rd Olympic championship 2020, at the moment he has no intentions of turning professional.[2]

It was reported in July 2018 that Ramirez left the Cuban National Team during training exercises in Mexico, which has been speculated to be a prelude to defection from Cuba, and possibly into the world of professional boxing.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Flyweight gold for Robeisy Carrazana Ramirez". BBC Sport. 12 August 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Robeisy Ramirez". Rio 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/24022400/robeisy-ramirez-two-gold-medalist-leaves-cuban-national-team-training-camp


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