Oscar Edegardo Gómez (born July 21, 1975) is a retired male
light-middleweight
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Boxing
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from
Argentina
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, who represented his native country at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta, Georgia
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. There he was defeated in the first round of the men's light-middleweight division (– 71 kg) by Uzbekistan's eventual bronze medalist
Karim Tulaganov
Karim Tulaganov (Карим Тулаганов; born August 27, 1973) is an Uzbek boxer. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's Light Middleweight category, together with Yermakhan Ibraimov of Kazakhstan.
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after the referee stopped the contest in the third round.
References
sports-reference
1975 births
Living people
Light-middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Argentina
Argentine male boxers
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