Roberto Cammarelle

Roberto Cammarelle medal table
Roberto Cammarelle (right) with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano
Boxing
Italy
Olympic Summer Games
silver	2012	Super heavyweight
gold	2008	Super heavyweight
bronze	2004	Super heavyweight
World championships
bronze	2013	Super heavyweight
gold	2009	Super heavyweight
gold	2007	Super heavyweight
bronze	2005	Super heavyweight
European championships
silver	2011	Super heavyweight
silver	2004	Super heavyweight
silver	2002	Super heavyweight
EU championships
gold	2007	Super heavyweight
gold	2006	Super heavyweight
gold	2005	Super heavyweight
gold	2004	Super heavyweight

Roberto Cammarelle (* 30th July 1980 in Milan , Italy ) is a former Italian boxer in the super heavyweight .

Career

Roberto Cammarelle began boxing at the age of 14, had been with the Italian national team since 1997 and was part of the sports department of the Polizia di Stato from 2000 .

National successes

He had already won the Italian championship title in the U16 age group in 1995. In the adult category, he was Italian heavyweight runner-up in 1999 and Italian heavyweight champion in 2000 and 2001. In 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2012 he won the title of Italian super heavyweight champion.

Continental successes

At the European Championships he won the silver medal in Perm in 2002 and in Pula in 2004 , after losing to Alexander Powetkin in both final matches . He had previously defeated Sebastian Köber and David Price , among others . In 2011 in Ankara he reached the final again, with victories against Wiktar Sujeu , Tony Yoka and Mihai Nistor , where he was defeated this time by Magomed Omarow and became vice European champion for the third time.

He won the gold medal at EU championships in Madrid in 2004 when he defeated Mariusz Wach in the final . In 2005 in Cagliari he repeated winning the gold medal by beating Kubrat Pulew in the final . In 2006 in Pécs he won his third EU gold medal, defeating Krzysztof Zimnoch by knockout in the first round. He won his fourth and final gold medal at EU championships in 2007 in Dublin with a final win over Cathal McMonagle.

In addition, Cammarelle won the Mediterranean Games of 2005 in Almería , 2009 in Pescara and 2013 in Mersin , where he was able to beat Mohamed Samoudi, Marko Tomasović and Ali Eren Demirezen in the finals .

World Championships and Olympic Games

At the CISM Military World Championships in 2002 in Curragh , he won the silver medal after defeating Alexei Lesin in the semi-finals and losing to Stefan Köber in the final. In 2004 in Fort Huachuca , he won the gold medal at the same event, although his final opponent Steffen Kretschmann did not fight. He was also a participant in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , where he immediately won a bronze medal; after victories against Gbenga Oluokun and Alexei Masykin, he was only inferior to Alexander Powetkin when he reached the final.

He ended the 2005 World Championships in Mianyang by winning a bronze medal after he was eliminated in the semifinals against Roman Romantschuk . At the 2007 World Championships in Chicago he fought against Nelson Hysa, José Payares, Kubrat Pulew, David Price and Islam Timursijew in the final and beat Vyacheslav Hlaskov in the fight for the gold medal . As one of the favorites, he then started at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , where he was able to defeat Marko Tomasović , Óscar Rivas , David Price and Zhang Zhilei and became Olympic champion.

At the 2009 World Championships in Milan , he also won the gold medal again when he beat Michael Hunter , Rok Urbanc, Kubrat Pulew, Wiktar Sujeu and Roman Kapitonenko . He had to end the 2011 World Championships in Baku after a narrow defeat in the quarter-finals against Anthony Joshua after he had prevailed against José Payares and Con Sheehan .

Against Joshua he then lost at 18: 18+ controversially in the final of the 2012 Olympic Games in London . He had previously won against Ítalo Perea , Mohamed Arjaoui and Məhəmmədrəsul Məcidov . At his last world championships, in 2013 in Almaty , he defeated Tony Yoka, Modo Sallah and Filip Hrgović , before he was eliminated this time with a bronze medal against Məhəmmədrəsul Məcidov.

Selection of international tournament victories

• Governor Cup 2012
• Memorial Vllaznia 2012
• Feliks Stamm Tournament 2011
• Bocskei Memorial 2005
• Algirdas Šocikas 2004
• Chemistry Cup 2003, 2008
• Acropolis Cup 2002, 2004

successes

• Italian champion: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012
• Mediterranean Games winners: 2005, 2009, 2013
• EU champions: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• European Championships: second in 2002, second in 2004, second in 2011
• World Championships: third in 2005, winner in 2007 and 2009, third in 2013
• Military World Championships: second in 2002, winner in 2004
• Olympic Games: third in 2004, winner in 2008, second in 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roberto Cammarelle, Olympic.org
2. ^ Roberto Cammarelle, Geocities.ws
3. ↑ Roberto Cammarelle Homepage ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ List of Italian championships
5. ↑ EM 2002
6. ↑ EM 2004
7. ↑ EM 2011
8. ↑ EU championships
9. ↑ Mediterranean Games
10. ^ Military World Cup 2002
11. ↑ Military World Cup 2004
12. ↑ OS 2004
13. ↑ World Cup 2005
14. ↑ 2007 World Cup
15. ↑ OS 2008
16. ↑ World Cup 2009
17. ↑ World Cup 2011
18. ↑ OS 2012
19. ↑ World Cup 2013

Web links

• Roberto Cammarelle in the Olympedia.org database (English)