Heo Yong-Mo (April 21, 1965 – March 9, 2019) was a
South Korean amateur boxer.
Career
He won a
Light Flyweight bronze medal at the
1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships
The Men's 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Munich, West Germany from May 4 to 15. The third edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, was organised by the world governi ...
.
Heo captured a
Flyweight silver medal in the
1983 Boxing World Cup in Rome, Italy, beating Australian boxing legend
Jeff Fenech
Jeff Fenech (born 28 May 1964) is an Australian former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2008. He won world titles in three weight divisions, having held the IBF bantamweight title from 1985 to 1987, the WBC super-bantamweight t ...
by unanimous decision in the semifinals.
Next year, Heo participated in the
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...
. However, he, in a major upset, lost to
Eyüp Can of Turkey by split decision in the quarterfinals.
Heo served as a middle school teacher in
Yeosu,
Jeollanam-do.
Results
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1965 births
Olympic boxers of South Korea
Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
2019 deaths
Asian Games medalists in boxing
Boxers at the 1982 Asian Games
South Korean male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
Light-flyweight boxers
20th-century South Korean people
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