Carlos Banteur Suárez (born October 13, 1986) is a Cuban amateur boxer from Santiago de Cuba best known for qualifying for the

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at welterweight. His name is sometimes misspelled Banteaux, Banteaur or Banteux by some sources outside Cuba.

Career

Banteur won the 64 kg World Junior Championships 2004, but struggled at senior level for years at junior welter even nationally. His best result was a second place in 2006 vs Inocente Fiss, in 2007 he again exited early. After the failed defection of dominant welterweight world champion Erislandy Lara, however, Lara was sidelined and the division was wide open. Banteur moved up and won the 2008 nationals immediately with a clear 15:6 final win over veteran Yudel Johnson. He won the Dominican ''Copa Independencia'' and dominated his four bouts at the Olympic qualifier routing Óscar Molina 19:4 in the all-important semifinal. In the meaningless final he also beat fellow qualifier

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12:2. At the Olympics Banteur defeated Hosam Abdin to reach the medal rounds.

Olympic Games

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in Beijing, China (light welterweight) **1st round bye **Defeated Billy Joe Saunders (Great Britain) 13-6 **Defeated

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(Egypt) 10-2 **Defeated Kanat Islam (China) 17-4 **Lost to Bakhyt Sarsekbayev (Kazakhstan) 18-9

World Cup

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in Moscow, Russia (light welterweight) **Lost to Kanat Orakbayev (Kazakhstan) 36–44 **Lost to Oleg Komissarov (Russia) 25–30

External links

2004 World Juniors

* Living people 1986 births Olympic boxers of Cuba Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games Olympic silver medalists for Cuba Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cuban male boxers Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games {{Cuba-Olympic-medalist-stub