Yan Barthelemy Varela (born March 5, 1980,

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) is a Cuban- American amateur boxer, who won the gold medal in the light flyweight division (– 48 kg) at the

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Amateur career

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**Round of 32 – Defeated

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of Venezuela – RSC-3 **Round of 16 – Defeated Suban Pannon of Thailand – PTS (23-14) **Quarterfinals – Defeated Hong Moo-Won of North Korea – PTS (30-11) **Semifinals – Defeated Zou Shiming of China – PTS (29-17) **Final – Defeated Atagun Yalcinkaya of Turkey – PTS (21-16) *

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**Defeated Suban Pannon (Thailand) 36–12 **Defeated Iulius Poczo (Romania) RSC-2 **Defeated

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(Kazakhstan) 44–15 **Defeated

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(Russia) 26–14 In December 2006, Barthelemy together with fellow Athens Olympic champions

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and

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left training camp in Venezuela for

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and defected to the United States. They signed a contract with a Hamburg-based promoter and turned professional. He was part of the Cuban team that won the

2006 Boxing World Cup The 2006 Boxing World Cup was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from October 15 to October 22. Preliminaries Pool A * * * * Preliminary round standings Pool B * * * * Preliminary round standings Final * Ukraine and Azerbaijan shared the ...

Professional career

Barthelemy made his pro debut on April 27, 2007, by winning a UD against Ravil Mukhamadiarov and knocked him down in the 4th round. Bartelemí was 6-0 before being upset by unheralded Ernie Marquez, suffering his 1st loss. Bartelemí then went to win the vacant

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Latino Bantamweight title in his next match.Yan Barthelemy – Boxer
/ref> He most recently was upset by Jorge Diaz after taking the fight on short notice, losing by TKO, a major career setback.

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Yan Berthelemy, February 22, 2008 event
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