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Full name
  
Angel Herrera Vera

Role
  
Boxer

Nationality
  
Cuba

Height
  
1.59 m


Sport
  
Boxing

Weight
  
57 kg

Name
  
Angel Vera

Martial art
  
Boxing


Born
  
August 2, 1957 (age 66) (
1957-08-02
)
Guantanamo

Olympic medals
  
Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics - Featherweight

Rated at
  
Lightweight, Featherweight

Similar People
  
Viktor Demyanenko, Kazimierz Adach, Richard Nowakowski

Ángel Herrera Vera (born August 2, 1957 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban boxer, who won two Olympic gold medals, and the world title at the second World Championships in Belgrade.

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First competing in the featherweight (– 57 kg) category, he won the 1976 Olympics as well as the 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He then competed in lightweight (– 60 kg) to win another Olympic gold in 1980, and his second World Title in Munich, West Germany. In 1983 he won a silver medal at the Pan American Games.

Results

1976 Summer Olympics

  • 1st round bye
  • Defeated Rai Sik (India) KO 1
  • Defeated Angel Pacheco (Venezuela) 5-0
  • Defeated Davey Lee Armstrong (United States) 3-2
  • Defeated Juan Paredes (Mexico) 5-0
  • Defeated Richard Nowakowski (East Germany) KO 2

    • 1978 World Amateur Championships

  • Defeated Hirochi Ganobe (Japan) RSC-3
  • Defeated Viorel Ioana (Romania) walk-over
  • Defeated Roman Gotfryd (Poland) 5:0
  • Defeated Bratislav Ristić (Yugoslavia) 4:1

    • 1980 Summer Olympics

  • Defeated Carlo Russolillo (Italy) 5-0
  • Defeated Geza Tumbas (Yugoslavia) 5-0
  • Defeated Galsandorj Batbileg (Mongolia) 5-0
  • Defeated Kazimierz Adach (Poland) 5-0
  • Defeated Viktor Demyanenko (USSR) TKO 3

    • 1982 World Amateur Championships

  • Defeated Juhito Arai (Japan) 5:0
  • Defeated Kosem Barake (Israel) KO-2
  • Defeated Lofti Belkhir (Tunisia) RSC-1
  • Defeated Viorel Ioana (Romania) 4:1
  • Defeated Pernell Whitaker (United States) 3:2

    • References

    Ángel Herrera Vera Wikipedia
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