Héctor "Joto" Velásquez Vergara (9 February 1952 – 18 August 2010) was a
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
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from
Chile
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. He represented his native country at the
1972 Summer Olympics
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in
Munich
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,
West Germany
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.
Velásquez won the silver medal in the Men's Light-Flyweight division (– 47 kg) at the
1971 Pan American Games, where the weight division was included for the first time. In the final, he was defeated by Cuba's
Rafael Carbonell.
References
Héctor Velásquez's profile at Sports Reference.com
External links
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1952 births
2010 deaths
Flyweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Chile
Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Chilean male boxers
Boxers at the 1971 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile
Pan American Games medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games
20th-century Chilean people
21st-century Chilean people
People from Cautín Province
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