Emilio Correa (boxer born 1985)

For his father, the Olympic boxer from the 1970s, see Emilio Correa (boxer born 1953).

Emilio Correa Bayeux Júnior^[a] (born 12 October 1985) is a Cuban amateur boxer best known for winning the middleweight Gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. He is the son of Olympic champion Emilio Correa Sr.

Emilio Correa Jr.

Personal information
Full name	Emilio Correa Bayeux Júnior
Born	(1985-10-12) 12 October 1985 (age 39) Santiago de Cuba
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Medal record Men's amateur boxing Representing  Cuba Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Middleweight World Amateur Championships 2005 Mianyang Middleweight Pan American Games 2007 Rio Middleweight 2011 Guadalajara Middleweight

Career

In 2004, he lost by stoppage in the welterweight final of the World Junior Championships to Elshod Rasulov and finished third at the national senior championships.

In 2005, he moved up to middleweight and won the national championships. At the World Championships, he won a bronze after losing to Russian star Matvey Korobov.

In 2006, he lost the final of the national championships to veteran Yordanis Despaigne.

At the PanAm Games 2007, he knocked out American Shawn Porter, outpointed Marco Periban 34:10, beat Carlos Góngora 21:13 in the semis and Argenis Nunez 22:5 in the final.

He reached the 2008 Middleweight Olympic final, where he lost a bout for gold against Great Britain's James DeGale. The bout would have gone to countback had he not bitten DeGale, for which he was penalized 2 points.^[1]

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he was upset by Romanian Bogdan Juratoni.

At the 2012 Olympic qualifier^[2] he was disqualified in his first bout and therefore didn't participate in the London games.

Olympic results

2008

• Defeated Jarrod Fletcher (Australia) 17-4
• Defeated Sergiy Derevyanchenko (Ukraine) 18-4
• Defeated Elshod Rasulov (Uzbekistan) 9-7
• Defeated Vijender Singh (India) 8-5
• Lost to James DeGale 14-16

Notes

1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Correa and the second or maternal family name is Bayeux.