Jorge Vivas

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Jorge Luis Vivas Palacios (* 22. January 1988 in Apartadó ) is a Colombian amateur boxer in the middleweight division .

Life

Vivas is the youngest son of Carlina Palacios Mosquera, who, according to him, is still his greatest inspiration today. He lives in Carepa and is the father of two children. He trained soccer as a child, then tried his hand at athletics and ended up boxing at the age of 14. Shortly thereafter, he won his first boxing match with a knockout , which encouraged him to continue in this sport.

At the Departmental Championships in October 2004, he won a silver medal in the lightweight class and in 2005 became a sparring partner for the departmental selection. He won his first gold medal at the Departmental Championships in 2006.

Vivas won the Bolivarian Middleweight Games in 2013, finished second at the South American Games in 2014 and finished fifth at the 22nd Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz in 2014.

He won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games . In March 2016 he qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics , where he lost 2-1 to Wilfried Ntsengue from Cameroon in the first round and was eliminated.

He took part in the Pan American Boxing Championships in 2017 and qualified for the 2017 World Championships in Hamburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrés Felipe Bedoya Serna: Colombia visita a Italia por los Cuartos de la Serie Mundial de Boxeo. El Mundo.com, May 12, 2017.
  2. Jump up ↑ Talentos a Río 2016: Jorge Luis Vivas Finds Su talento en el recreo del colegio. Comité Olímpico Colombiano, June 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ Vivas Palacios, Jorge Luis. Toronto 2015.
  4. ↑ Vivas, Jorge Luis. ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / veracruz2014.mx archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Veracruz 2014.
  5. ↑ Jorge Luis Vivas Palacios. Les Sports; accessed on August 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ Jorge Vivas on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
  7. ↑ Ones to watch ahead of the 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships. AIBA, August 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Vivas, Jorge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vivas, Jorge Luis; Vivas Palacios, Jorge Luis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian middleweight boxer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Apartadó , Colombia