Myke Carvalho
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| Bronze | Rio 2007 | Light Welterweight | |
Myke Michel Ribeiro de Carvalho (b. October 28, 1983 in Belém do Pará) is a Brazilian amateur boxer best known to participate in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and win PanAm bronze 2007.
[edit] Career
Carvalho stems from a boxing family, his uncle Dalgírio Ribeiro was a professional boxer. He started working out at the age of 11 and had his first amateur bout with 15.
Carvalho won silver at the South American Games 2002 at feather losing to Nehomar Cermeno.
He qualified for the Olympics 2004 at 21 at lightweight but lost his first match in Athens to Alexander de Jesus of Puerto Rico, 24:39.
Now at junior welter he won the South American Games 2006.
At the PanAm Games 2007 he lost at junior welter 8:9 to eventual winner Karl Dargan in the semis and settled for bronze.
At the second Olymopic qualifier he lost his semifinal to Manuel Félix Díaz but edged out Gumersindo Carrasco in the all-important third-place bout 3:2 to qualufy.
