Juan Bautista Hernández Pérez (born December 24, 1962) is a retired
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
Boxer or boxers may also refer to:
Animal kingdom
* Boxer crab
* Boxer shrimp, a small group of decapod crustaceans
* Boxer snipe ee ...
from
Cuba, who won the gold medal in the Bantamweight division (-54 kg) at age seventeen at the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
in
Moscow. In the final he defeated
Venezuela's
Bernardo Piñango
Bernardo José Piñango Figuera (born February 9, 1960) is a Venezuelan former professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1990. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA and ''The Ring'' bantamweight titles from 1986 ...
on points (5-0).
1980 Olympic results
* Round of 64: bye
* Round of 32: Defeated
Sándor Farkas (Hungary) by decision, 4-1
* Round of 16: Defeated
Ayele Mohammed (Ethiopia) referee stopped contest in second round
* Quarterfinal: Defeated
Geraldi Issaick (Tanzania) referee stopped contest in first round
* Semifinal: Defeated
Michael Anthony (Guyana) by decision, 5-0
* Final: Defeated
Bernardo Piñango
Bernardo José Piñango Figuera (born February 9, 1960) is a Venezuelan former professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1990. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA and ''The Ring'' bantamweight titles from 1986 ...
(Venezuela) by decision, 5-0
External links
Juan Hernándezat databaseOlympics.com
*
1962 births
Living people
Olympic boxers of Cuba
Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
Olympic medalists in boxing
Cuban male boxers
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Bantamweight boxers
People from Granma Province
20th-century Cuban people
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