Abner Teixeira

In this Portuguese name, "Júnior" is a generational suffix used for someone whose name is the same as their father, like "Jr." in English.

Abner Teixeira
Teixeira with President Lula da Silva.
Personal information
Full nameAbner Teixeira da Silva Júnior
Born (1996-09-10) 10 September 1996 (age 28)
Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Sport
SportBoxing
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Heavyweight
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago Super Heavyweight
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Lima Heavyweight
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción Super heavyweight

Abner Teixeira da Silva Júnior (born 10 September 1996) is a Brazilian boxer.[1] He was a bronze medalist in the men's heavyweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2][3]

Career

Born in Osasco, Abner soon moved to Sorocaba, in the interior of São Paulo. At the age of 14, Teixeira visited a social boxing project in Sorocaba, and became involved in the sport. Shortly afterwards, the teenager began training. Dedicated, he walked 6km every day to get to the gym. The boy who dreamed of being a football player, doctor or firefighter soon began to stand out and won his first Brazilian youth title in 2013. The good results led Teixeira to the Brazilian Team. At the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru, the heavyweight won the bronze medal. [4][5][6]

He participated in the 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where he won the first fight but was eliminated in the 2nd round.[7]

At the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, he became the first Brazilian boxer to stand on the podium in a historic campaign for Brazil (one gold, one silver and one bronze). The athlete won the fifth Brazilian boxing bronze medal in the history of the Olympic Games: besides him, Servílio de Oliveira (Mexico City 1968) and Adriana Araújo, Yamaguchi Falcão and Esquiva Falcão (London 2012) won the medal.[8][9]

Participated in the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia, in the heavyweight category.[10]

At the 2022 South American Games, he won gold in the super heavyweight category.[11]

At the 2023 IBA World Boxing Championships, now participating in the Super heavyweight category, lost in the round of 16 to Georgian Nikoloz Begadze.[12]

At the 2023 Pan American Games, Teixeira reached the super heavyweight final, but had to abandon the final due to physical injury, obtaining the silver medal and, therefore, qualifying for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Teixera had a total anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in his right knee two months ago. At the moment, he was undergoing conservative treatment, as surgery could take him out of the Olympics, as it was estimated that recovery would take around seven months.[13] He managed to recover to compete in the Olympics, but fell in the first round.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Abner Teixeira". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Boxing: Men's Heavy (81-91kg)" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  3. ^ BRAZIL BOXING AT 2020 OLYMPICS BY COB
  4. ^ COB Profile
  5. ^ Boxe: Abner Teixeira perde na semifinal e fica com o bronze no Pan
  6. ^ Abner Teixeira celebra medalha de bronze no boxe nas Olimpíadas de Tóquio: 'Realizei um sonho'
  7. ^ Aniversariante do dia, Abner Teixeira faz estreia em Mundiais com vitória
  8. ^ COB Profile
  9. ^ Abner Teixeira celebra medalha de bronze no boxe nas Olimpíadas de Tóquio: 'Realizei um sonho'
  10. ^ "Mundial de boxe: Abner Teixeira perde, e Michael Douglas avança". ge (in Brazilian Portuguese). 29 October 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Medalhistas olímpicos, Felipe Wu e Abner Teixeira brilham nos Jogos Sul-Americanos". www.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  12. ^ "Wanderley Pereira atropela adversário e vai às oitavas do Mundial – CBBoxe" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 7 May 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  13. ^ Abner Teixeira e Michael Douglas estão fora das finais do boxe no Pan de Santiago
  14. ^ [1]