Carlos Banteur Suárez (born October 13, 1986) is a

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n amateur boxer from

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best known for qualifying for the 2008 Olympics at welterweight. His name is sometimes misspelled Banteaux, Banteaur or Banteux by some sources outside Cuba.

Career

Banteur won the 64 kg World Junior Championships 2004, but struggled at senior level for years at junior welter even nationally. His best result was a second place in 2006 vs Inocente Fiss, in 2007 he again exited early. After the failed defection of dominant welterweight world champion

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, however, Lara was sidelined and the division was wide open. Banteur moved up and won the 2008 nationals immediately with a clear 15:6 final win over veteran

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. He won the Dominican ''Copa Independencia'' and dominated his four bouts at the Olympic qualifier routing

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19:4 in the all-important semifinal. In the meaningless final he also beat fellow qualifier John Jackson 12:2. At the Olympics Banteur defeated Hosam Abdin to reach the medal rounds.

Olympic Games

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in Beijing, China (light welterweight) **1st round bye **Defeated

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(Great Britain) 13-6 **Defeated Hosam Bakr Abdin (Egypt) 10-2 **Defeated

Kanat Islam Kanat Islam ( kk, Қанат Ислам, Qanat İslam; zh, s=哈那提斯拉木, p=Hanati Silamu; born 13 September 1984) is a Chinese-born Kazakhstani professional boxer who currently lives and trains in Miami. As an amateur, he represented C ...

(China) 17-4 **Lost to

Bakhyt Sarsekbayev Bakhyt Abdirakhmanuly Sarsekbayev ( kk, Бақыт Әбдірахманұлы Сәрсекбаев; born 29 November 1981) is a Kazakhastani amateur boxer who won gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Welterweight, and won gold medal at the 200 ...

(Kazakhstan) 18-9

World Cup

* 2005 in Moscow, Russia (light welterweight) **Lost to

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(Kazakhstan) 36–44 **Lost to

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(Russia) 25–30

External links

2004 World Juniors

* Living people 1986 births Olympic boxers of Cuba Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games Olympic silver medalists for Cuba Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cuban male boxers Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games {{Cuba-Olympic-medalist-stub