The Best achievements of the National Federations – East Timor
The Best achievements of the National Federations is the new PR campaign of the Asian Boxing Confederation and the introduction of the Timor Leste Boxing Federation and their best results are the next in the series.
East Timor or the so-called Timor Leste became independence from Indonesia in 2002 and their boxers competed first in the Asian Games in the Busan edition where two boxers in that year: Felix Alexandrino Barreto (51kg) and a former Indonesian national team boxer, Victor Ramos (60kg) represented the country in the multisport event in South Korea.
Further two boxers, such as Yeferson Isaac Ramos (48kg), and 24-year-old Othnel Negrito Manuel Baptista (57kg) represented the country in the Doha 2006 Asian Games.
East Timor sent record number of four boxers to the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games to China where Abilio Orlando Dos Santos (49kg), Artemio De Conceicao (52kg), Othnel Negrito Manuel Baptista (56kg) and Hendri Martins Borges Pereira (60kg) attended in the boxing event. Da Conceicao and Baptista lost only by points decisions from more experienced rivals which showed their slow progress in the Asian boxing map.
Two boxers from the country as Lionel Parada (56kg) and Elio Edito Da Silva (69kg) represented East Timor in the Incheon 2014 Asian Games. East Timor sent record number of five boxers to the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games where Jose Barreto Quintas Da Silva (49kg), Joao Barbosa Neto (52kg), Elisio Raimundo Gaio (56kg), Savon Monteiro Ramos (60kg) and Apolinario Da Costa Alves (64kg) competed in the multisport event.
East Timor is very active in the region’s multisport event at the Southeast Asian Games which holds every two years. Their debut was at the 2003 Hanoi edition short after the country’s independence and one boxer Francisco De Santo (57kg) represented East Timor in Vietnam. Abilio Orlando Dos Santos claimed East Timor’s first ever medal, a bronze in the boxing event of the Vientiane 2009 Southeast Asian Games.
Their welterweight (69kg) boxer Elio Edito Da Silva claimed two bronze medals for East Timor in the 2011 and 2013 editions of the Southeast Asian Games. Veteran Hendri Martins Borges Pereira continued his medal series at the welterweight (69kg) in the Singapore 2015 Southeast Asian Games.
One of their biggest successes in the boxing event of the Southeast Asian Games was at the 2019 edition where East Timor was able to get two medals in one event at the very first time. Jose Barreto Quintas Da Silva and Federico Soares Sarmento (81kg) bagged their medals in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.
Their Delio Anzaqeci Mouzinho became the first finalist from Timor Leste in the Southeast Asian Games in Bac Ninh, Vietnam on May 2022 while Jose Quintas Da Silva Barreto bagged another bronze for them. Edegar Foe Quintas Da Siva and Delio Anzaqeci Mouzinho were their next bronze medallists in the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia.
Timor Leste made its debut at the ASBC Asian U22 & Youth Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan on May 2024 which was a historic participation for the developing Southeast Asian country. Antonio Nicolau Hau Da Silva was the first ever boxer from Timor Leste who competed in an ASBC Asian Boxing Championships.
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