José Arturo Santos Reyes (born 28 December 1985) is a Mexican professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2004 Junior World Championships at flyweight and later competed at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

at featherweight.

Amateur career

At the 2004 Junior World Championships he beat

Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig ( mn, Зоригтбаатарын Энхзориг; February 27, 1987 – November 4, 2018) was an amateur boxer from Mongolia who competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the Featherweight (-57 kg) division, b ...

but lost the 2004 final to Ilhom Rahimov from Uzbekistan. At the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games he won silver at bantamweight beating

Héctor Manzanilla Héctor Manzanilla Rangel (born June 28, 1985 in Los Teques, Miranda) is a Venezuelan bantamweight boxer who has won a bronze medal at the Central American Games. He is most respected for giving amateur superstar Guillermo Rigondeaux one of th ...

but losing to

Guillermo Rigondeaux Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and ''Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 and ...

. At the 2007 World Championships he reached the quarterfinal where he lost to

Vasyl Lomachenko Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko ( uk, Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко, ; also spelled Vasiliy; born 17 February 1988) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in three weight classes fr ...

but qualified for Beijing. He is participating in the Beijing 2008 Olympics where he beat

Nick Okoth Nicholas Okongo Okoth (born 3 March 1983) is a Kenyan amateur boxer. He fought at the 2008 Olympics as a featherweight after winning the 2nd AIBA African 2008 Olympic Qualifying Tournament. In Beijing he lost his debut to Arturo Santos Reyes ...

and Alaa Shili to reach the quarter finals.

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* 1985 births Featherweight boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Mexico Living people Boxers from Tamaulipas Sportspeople from Nuevo Laredo Mexican male boxers Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing {{Mexico-boxing-bio-stub