Jorge Hernández (November 17, 1954 – December 12, 2019) born in

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was a

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from

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, who represented his native country at the

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, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the

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division (– 48 kg) by defeating

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

Li Byong-Uk Ri Byong-uk (born November 7, 1954) is a retired North Korean boxer, who won two Olympic medals in the men's Light Flyweight (48 kg) category. Olympic results 1976 * Defeated Sidney McKnight (Canada) KO 1 * Defeated Henryk Średnicki ...

in the final. Four years later, when

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hosted the Games, he was eliminated in the second round in the

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division (– 51 kg). Hernández won the world title at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in

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, followed by the silver medal four years later, when

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hosted the

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. He also captured the gold at the

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Results

1976 Olympic Games

:* Round of 32 Defeated Beyhan Fuchedzhiev (Bulgaria) RSC 3 :* Round of 16: Defeated Zoffa Yarawi (Papua New Guinea) KO 3 :* Quarterfinal: Defeated

Chan-Hee Park Park Chan-hee (Hangul: 박찬희, Hanja: 朴贊希; born 23 March 1957) is a retired South Korean boxer. As a professional he held the WBC and lineal titles in the flyweight division. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 1974 Asian Games ...

(South Korea) by decision, 3–2 :* Semifinal: Defeated

Orlando Maldonado Orlando Maldonado (born May 21, 1959 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1984, challenging for the WBC super flyweight title in 1983. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal in th ...

(Puerto Rico) by decision, 5–0 :* Final: Defeated

(North Korea) 4–1 (won gold medal)

1979 Pan American Games

:*Defeated Manuel Mariona (El Salvador) points :*Lost to

Jerome Coffee Jerome "Kid" Coffee (born March 16, 1958) is an American former boxer in the bantamweight division. Amateur career Coffee had an outstanding amateur career and won several national championships, Amateur record 205 fights 193 wins (or 185–8 ...

(United States) points

1980 Olympic Games

:*1st round bye :*Lost to

Viktor Miroshnichenko Viktor Miroshnichenko (russian: Виктор Мирошниченко; born 1 December 1959 in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a retired Ukrainian boxer, who represented the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the s ...

(Soviet Union) by decision, 1–4

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