Gabriel Maestre

Gabriel Maestre medal table
Boxing
Venezuela
World championships
bronze	2013	Welterweight
Pan American Games
bronze	2019	Welterweight
gold	2015	Welterweight
Pan American Championships
bronze	2015	Welterweight
silver	2013	Welterweight
South American Games
gold	2018	Welterweight
gold	2014	Welterweight

Gabriel José Maestre Pérez (* 22. September 1986 in Barcelona , Province of Anzoátegui , Venezuela) is a Venezuelan boxer in the welterweight division . Among other things, he is World Cup bronze winner in 2013, winner of the Pan American Games in 2015, Olympic participant in 2012 and 2016, and team captain of the Caciques de Venezuela team from the World Series of Boxing (WSB).

Amateur career

Gabriel Maestre started boxing in 1999 and has been part of the Venezuelan national team since 2007. In 2009 he achieved his first internationally significant success by winning a bronze medal at the Bolivarian Games . In 2010 he was a participant in the South American Games ( 7th place), the Pan American Championships ( 6th place) and the Central American and Caribbean Games (9th place).

In 2011 he won the Bolivarian Alternative Games , including a disqualification win against Carlos Banteur , and also won the Panamerican Games Qualifier against Aaron Prince, Junior Castillo, Carlos Sánchez and Brian Castaño , which qualified him for the 2011 Pan American Games. There he retired in the fight for a place in the medal ranks against Carlos Banteur and reached a fifth place. At the 2011 World Championships he defeated the Mexican Óscar Molina , but lost in the second duel against Balázs Bácskai from Hungary.

In 2012 he was able to qualify for the Olympic Games in London at the American qualification in Rio de Janeiro . There he reached the quarterfinals by winning against Amin Ghasemipour and Siphiwe Lusizi, where he was eliminated in fifth place in the fight for a medal placement against the later Olympic champion Serik Säpijew .

In 2013 he was able to fight his way to the final at the Pan American Championships in Chile against Luis Veron, Daniel Muñoz and Arisnoide Despaigne , where he was only barely defeated 1: 2 by Roberto Queiroz. He then started at the 2013 World Championships in Almaty , where he achieved his greatest success to date by winning a bronze medal. In the preliminary round he had defeated Balázs Bácskai, against whom he had lost at the 2011 World Cup. In the second round he beat the Polish European Championship participant Ireneusz Zakrzewski and in the quarter-finals the Russian European champion Alexander Besputin . In the semi-final fight he was eliminated against the Cuban Arisnoide Despaigne, whom he had defeated at the Pan American Championships. He also won the Bolivarian Games in Peru in 2013 by beating Carlos Sánchez in the final.

In 2014 he won the South American Games in Chile, this time also defeating Roberto Queiroz prematurely. At the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2014, however, he was eliminated in the first fight against the Mexican Marvin Cabrera.

2015 was another successful year as Maestre won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Canada and a bronze medal at the Pan American Championships in Venezuela. He again defeated Roberto Queiroz, as well as the Cuban world and Olympic champion Roniel Iglesias . He also took part in the 2015 World Championships , but was eliminated in the round of 16 against European champions Eimantas Stanionis .

In March 2016 he started at the American Olympic elimination in Buenos Aires and qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by winning against Jonathan Francois, Juan Romero, Justiniano Mina and Lester Martinez . At Olympia, he won the preliminary round against the German Araik Marutjan and moved into the round of 16, where he made it to the quarter-finals without a fight against the Italian Vincenzo Mangiacapre, who lost due to an injury . There he retired in the fight for entry into the medal ranks against the later Olympic champion Danijar Jeleussinow from Kazakhstan.

In 2017 Maestre won the silver medal at the Bolivarian Games and reached the quarter-finals at the Pan American Championships, qualifying for the 2017 World Championships. After a round of 16 victory against Manoj Kumar , he also reached the quarter-finals here, but was then eliminated against Abylaichan Schüssipow .

In 2018 he won the South American Games in Bolivia . He won a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan American Games .

World Series of Boxing

Maestre has been boxing as team captain for Caciques de Venezuela in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) since January 2014 and has nine wins and seven losses.

Professional career

In his first professional fight on July 6, 2019, he won by knockout in the second round against Jeovanis Barraza and became WBA Fedebol light middleweight champion. In December 2019, he won his first title defense early against Diego Chaves .

Web links

• AIBA profile 2015
• World Series of Boxing
• Gabriel Maestre in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Website; www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl