Youba Sissokho | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | Youba Sissokho Ndiaye 7 November 1991 Dakar, Senegal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Welterweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight(s) | 69 kg (152 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youba Sissokho Ndiaye (born 7 November 1991) is a Senegalese-born Spanish boxer. [1] He competed in the men's welterweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [2] He was born in Dakar and moved to Majorca at six months. [3]
Julio César Castillo Torres is an Ecuadorian amateur boxer. He won two medals at the Pan American Games: a bronze in 2007 and a silver in 2011.
Cissokho, also spelled Sissokho, is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mangte Chungneijang "Mary" Kom is an Indian Olympic boxer, politician, and former Member of Rajya Sabha. She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer to win eight World Championship medals. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she was the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she competed in the flyweight (51 kg) category and won a bronze medal. She had also been ranked as the world's No. 1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association (amateur) (AIBA). She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times. Mary Kom won the 51kg gold in President's Cup in Indonesia.
Vikas Krishan Yadav is an Indian boxer from Bhiwani district in Haryana, the hub of some of India's best boxers. He won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category and a gold medal in 75 kg weight category at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is one of the best boxers of India. He also boxed professionally.
Lázaro Jorge Álvarez Estrada is a Cuban professional and amateur boxer. As an amateur, Álvarez won the world title in 2011, 2013 and 2015. He also won gold medals at the 2011, 2015, and 2019 Pan American Games and bronze medals at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympics. He is a southpaw. His amateur record is currently 213-37, with 15 knockouts.
Julio César De La Cruz Peraza is a Cuban professional boxer. As an amateur he won gold medals at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, and the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships. As a professional, he has qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Yamil Alberto Peralta Jara is an Argentine boxer who won Heavyweight Bronze at the PanAm Games 2011 and later qualified for the Olympics.
Spain, represented by the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1920, Spanish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except for two; the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany, and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, as a protest against the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Spanish Olympic Committee sent a total of 306 athletes, 163 men and 143 women, to compete in 25 sports.
Peter Müllenberg is an amateur heavyweight boxer from the Netherlands who won silver medals at the 2013 and 2015 European championships.
Rogen Siaga Ladon is a Filipino retired amateur boxer. He first took up boxing in 2007, and won medals in international tournaments such as the Asian Amateur Boxing Championships and Southeast Asian Games as well as in smaller tournaments such as the 2012 Taipei City Cup and 2011 Hong Kong International Tournament.
Joahnys Óscar Argilagos Pérez is a Cuban professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics as well as a gold medal at both the 2015 and 2017 World Championships.
Luís Ángel Cabrera Machado is a Venezuelan boxer. Cabrera competed in the men's lightweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Misael Uziel Rodríguez Olivas is a Mexican professional boxer.
Vassiliy Levit is a Kazakh heavyweight amateur boxer who won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Jason Eric Whateley is an Australian professional boxer. As an amateur, he competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Whateley said that he is a supporter of the Australian football team Hawthorn Football Club.
Abdelrahman Salah Orabi Abdelgawwad is an Egyptian boxer. A continental silver medalist at the 2015 African Games, he competed in the light heavyweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the men's light heavyweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Albert Ramón Ramírez Durán, known as Albert Ramírez, is a Venezuelan professional boxer. As an amateur he competed in the light heavyweight division at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Youba Sambou is a Senegalese politician from Casamance who served in the government of Senegal as Minister of the Armed Forces from 2000 to 2002. He also served as Mayor of Bignona and was elected as a member of the National Assembly in 2007.
Youba is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
The Light middleweight competition at the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships was held between 27 October and 6 November.
 | This biographical article related to a Spanish boxer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
