José Larduet Gómez (born February 23, 1990, in

Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana. The municipality extends over , and contains t ...

) is a

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n amateur boxer best known for winning light-heavyweight bronze at the

2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships The 2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Milan, Italy, from September 1, 2009 to September 12, 2009, in the Mediolanum Forum. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history. The competition was under the supervision of the ...

. In November 2008 he won gold at the 2008 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships. He added a Cuban Senior title in January 2009 (held at Playa Giron). At the

he won bronze after being edged by Russian favorite

Artur Beterbiyev Artur Asilbekovich Beterbiev ( ce, Арту́р Асильбе́кович Бетерби́ев russian: Артур Асильбекович Бетербиев; born 21 January 1985) is a Russian-Canadian professional boxer. He is a unified l ...

6:10.

Heavyweight

At the

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he lost his quarterfinal 20:24 to

Teymur Mammadov Teymur Mammadov (born 11 January 1993) is a heavyweight amateur boxer from Azerbaijan. He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics and reached quarterfinals at the 2016 Games, where he served as the flag bearer for Azerbaijan during the Parade of ...

but qualified for the Olympics. At the

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he lost to

Clemente Russo Clemente Russo (born 27 July 1982) is an Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight (201 lbs limit). He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the Worl ...

in the quarter finals.

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1990 births Living people Cuban male boxers Light-heavyweight boxers Olympic boxers for Cuba Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing 21st-century Cuban people {{Cuba-boxing-bio-stub