Robson Conceição

Robson Conceição

Data
Birth Name	Robson Donato Conceição
Weight class	Super featherweight
nationality	Brazil Brazilian
birthday	October 25, 1988
place of birth	Salvador da Bahia
style	Left delivery
size	1.71 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	13
Victories	13
Knockout victories	6th

Robson Conceição medal table
Boxing
Brazil Brazil
Olympic Summer Games
gold	2016	lightweight
World championships
silver	2013	lightweight
bronze	2015	lightweight
Pan American Games
gold	2011	lightweight
Pan American Championships
gold	2009	Featherweight
gold	2013	lightweight
gold	2015	lightweight
Military world games
gold	2011	lightweight

Robson Donato Conceição (born October 25, 1988 in Salvador da Bahia ) is a Brazilian professional boxer in the super featherweight division . As an amateur, he was an Olympic lightweight champion in 2016 .

Amateur career

The 1.75 m tall left boom was Brazilian flyweight champion (-51 kg) in 2005, Brazilian featherweight champion (-57 kg) in 2009 and Brazilian lightweight champion in 2012.

In 2008 Conceição took part in the American Olympic qualification tournaments in Port of Spain and Guatemala City , where he failed in the first tournament in the semifinals to Idel Torriente , but took first place in the second tournament and thus qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . At the Olympic Games, Conceição failed in the first fight against Li Yang (4:12).

In 2009 Conceição took part in the American Championships for the first time and won the featherweight gold medal after winning against Ivan Onate, Claudio Marrero and Óscar Valdez . At the World Championships in the same year he lost in the first fight against Yasniel Toledo .

At the 2010 Military World Championships, Conceição started in the lightweight for the first time, but failed in the first fight against Tommy Roque.

2011 Conceição won the Pan American Games after victories over Wellington Arias , Toka Kahn-Clary and Angel Suarez, as well as a final defeat against Lázaro Álvarez the silver medal. In the same year he also won the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro .

At the 2011 World Championships , Conceição reached the round of 16 after victories against Michał Chudecki and Martin Ward , which he just lost against eventual world champion Wassyl Lomatschenko . With this 9th place Conceição qualified for the Olympic Games 2012 in London . Here he met Josh Taylor from Scotland in the first round , against whom he lost 9:13.

In 2013 Conceição won the American Championships in Santiago de Chile . In the same year he also won the silver medal at the World Championships in Almaty . On the way to the final he won u. a. against Dordschnjambuugiin Otgondalai and Domenico Valentino before being eliminated by Lázaro Álvarez . The following year he won the South American Games in Santiago de Chile.

With a final victory against Lázaro Álvarez, he also won the American Championships in Venezuela in 2015 . At the World Championships in the same year he beat Adlan Abduraschidow and Joseph Cordina before failing in the semifinals to Albert Selimow and winning a bronze medal. At the 2016 Olympics he won the gold medal with victories against Anwar Junussow (TKO), Xurshid Tojiboyev (3-0), Lázaro Álvarez (3-0) and Sofiane Oumiha (3-0).

In total, he fought 420 fights and won 405 of them.

Professional career

After the 2016 Olympic Games, he became a professional at the US promoter Top Rank . He won his debut on November 5, 2016 in Las Vegas against Clay Burns.

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Conceição, Robson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Conceicao, Robson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 25, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salvador da Bahia

[1] Overview of the Brazilian Championships

[2] American Olympic Qualifications, Port of Spain

[3] American Olympic Qualifications, Guatemala City

[4] Olympic Games 2008

[5] Panamerican Championships 2009

[6] World Championships 2009

[7] CISM Championships 2010

[8] Panamerican Games 2011

[9] World Military Games 2011

[10] World Championships 2011

[11] Olympic Games 2012

[12] Panamerican Championships 2013

[13] World Championships 2013

[14] South American Games 2014

[15] Panamerican Championships 2015

[16] World Championships 2015

[17] Olympic Games 2016

[18] Robson Conceicao, gold medalist from Brazil, signs with Top Rank