Juan Hernández Sierra (born March 16, 1969) is a retired amateur boxer from Cuba, who competed in the welterweight (< 67 kg) division during the 1990s. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. After having won silver at his Olympic debut he repeated that feat in Atlanta, United States (1996). Four times he became world champion in his division, in 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships, 1991, 1993 World Amateur Boxing Championships, 1993, 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships, 1995 and 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships, 1999.

Olympic results

1992 * Defeated Said Bennajem (France) 6-0 * Defeated Jin-Chul Jun (South Korea) RSC 2 * Defeated Soren Antman (Sweden) RSC 3 * Defeated Aníbal Santiago Acevedo, Aníbal Acevedo (Puerto Rico) 11-2 * Lost to Michael Carruth (Ireland) 10-13 1996 * Defeated József Nagy (boxer, born 1975), Jozsef Nagy (Hungary) RSC 2 * Defeated Vadim Mezga (Belarus) 12-2 * Defeated Nurzhan Smanov (Kazakhstan) 16-8 * Defeated Marian Simion (Romania) 20-7 * Lost to Oleg Saitov (Russia) 9-14 2000 * Defeated Stephan Nzue Mba (Gabon) RSC 3 * Defeated Mohamed Salad Marmouri (Tunisia) RSC 3 * Lost to Yermakhan Ibraimov (Kazakhstan) 9-16

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Juan Hernández
at databaseOlympics.com * * * 1969 births Living people Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 1991 Pan American Games Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1999 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Cuba Olympic silver medalists for Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Cuban male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in boxing Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba Competitors at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games People from Pinar del Río Province 20th-century Cuban people {{Cuba-boxing-bio-stub