Jesús Martínez Tejeda (born 19 January 1976 in
Gómez Palacio, Durango)
is a Mexican former professional
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who competed from 1997 to 2011. He challenged for the
WBC
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flyweight
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title in 2002. As an amateur, he represented his country at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta, Georgia
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. In that competition, he lost in the second round of the men's light flyweight division to Indonesia's
La Paene Masara.
References
1976 births
Living people
Boxers from Durango
Flyweight boxers
Light-flyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Mexico
People from Gómez Palacio, Durango
Mexican male boxers
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