Timor Leste will make a historic ASBC debut in Astana

Timor Leste has never competed in any of the ASBC competitions in the past and the country will make its debut in Astana, Kazakhstan soon. The management of the Asian Boxing Confederation supported the participation of Timor Leste in the upcoming ASBC Asian U22 & Youth Boxing Championships.

The 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 born boxers will be able to compete at the U22 age group in Astana, Kazakhstan. Boxers who were born in 2006 and in 2007 will be eligible to participate in the youth age group in this specific continental event.

Nekson Viktor Talise and Benjamin Alves De Assis are the officials of the team and they selected three U22 male boxers to compete in Astana, Kazakhstan which is a historic step from the developing Southeast Asian country.

Antonio Nicolau Hau Da Silva is a 22-year-old boxer who can show his skills for the first time in a huge championships. Deonizio Dovi Monteiro Ramos and Shevanio Malefama Dos Santos Henriques both have joined the U22 age group this January and the two teenagers will be making there international debut in Astana in the upcoming days.

East Timor, or several times called it as Timor Leste, became independent from Indonesia in 2002 and joined to the international boxing events quickly in that year. Their biggest achievement was the 2021 SEA Games when the country earned one silver and one bronze medal. Further of their boxing highlights were at the 2019 and 2023 editions of the Southeast Asian Games where East Timor claimed two bronze medals.

East Timor competed first in the Asian Games in the Busan 2002 edition where two boxers, Felix Alexandrino Barreto (51kg) and a former Indonesian national team boxer, Victor Ramos (60kg) represented the country in the multisport event. Further two boxers, such as Yefferdson 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 last 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.

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