Héctor Manzanilla Rangel (born June 28, 1985 in

Los Teques Los Teques () is the capital of the state of Miranda, and the municipality of Guaicaipuro in north-central Venezuela. The city is about 25 km southwest of Caracas, and above mean sea level. It lies in the Cordillera de la Costa, on the ba ...

, Miranda) is a

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

n bantamweight boxer who has won a bronze medal at the Central American Games. He is most respected for giving amateur superstar

Guillermo Rigondeaux Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. Who held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and '' Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 and 2017, and the WBA (Regular) bantamweight title fro ...

one of the toughest fights of his career.

Career

At the Central American Games 2006 he lost to Mexican Arturo Santos Reyes in the semis. At the ALBA Games in May 2007 in his home country he gave two-time Olympic champion, who came into this fight with a 96-bout winning streak stretching back to 2003, one of his toughest fights, losing only on countback +8:8 (36:38). (The 5:0 score on Rigondeaux's amateur record is misleading, all five judges voted for him). He did not participate in the PanAm Games 2007. At the

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where he lost to Mongolia's

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in the quarter final he qualified for the Olympics. As of 2007, his record was 179-15.

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Central American Games 2006

Bio/Record (Spanish)
Living people Bantamweight boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Venezuela People from Los Teques Sportspeople from Miranda (state) 1985 births Venezuelan male boxers Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Venezuela Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games South American Games gold medalists for Venezuela South American Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 2006 South American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing 20th-century Venezuelan people 21st-century Venezuelan sportsmen {{Venezuela-boxing-bio-stub