Iván Felipe Silva
Iván Felipe Silva Morales (born February 8, 1996 in Matanzas ) is a Cuban judoka .
The 1.80 m tall Silva fought in the light middleweight division until 2016. Silva took third place in the Pan American Championships in 2014. In the same year he won a bronze medal at the Youth Olympic Games . In 2015 he won his first Cuban championship. At the Pan American Championships in 2015, he finished fifth. Three months later he reached the final of the Pan American Games in 2015 and was defeated by the US judoka Travis Stevens . Another three months later, Silva won a bronze medal at the U21 World Championships. In 2016 he won bronze at the Pan American Championships in front of a home crowd in Havana. At the 2016 Olympic Games , he was eliminated in his first fight against the Georgian Awtandil Tschrikishvili .
In 2017 Silva switched to middleweight division. That year he won the Cuban Championships and the Pan American Championships. In 2018 he defended his title at the Pan American Championships and won the Central American and Caribbean Games . At the World Championships in Baku he reached the final with five wins, where he was defeated by the Spaniard Nikoloz Sherazadishvili .
Web links
- Iván Felipe Silva in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Iván Felipe Silva on judoinside.com
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Silva, Iván Felipe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silva Morales, Iván Felipe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban judoka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Matanzas |