Flávio Furtado

Flávio Furtado is a Cape Verdean former amateur boxer who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2005 World [Amateur Boxing Championships|2005 World Championships].

Career

As a teenager, Furtado won a bronze medal at the 1997 [Jeux de la Francophonie].
Furtado participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native island African country. There, he lost 36-20 to Canadian Trevor Stewardson in the Boxing at the [2004 Summer Olympics – Light heavyweight|Light heavyweight division] in the round of 32.
Furtado qualified for the Athens Games by winning the silver medal at the 1st AIBA African [2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament] in Casablanca, Morocco. In the final of the event, he was defeated the Algerian fighter, Abdelhani Kenzi.
The following year he competed at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Mianyang, China where he was defeated by Lithuania's Daugirdas Šemiotas.