Heo Yong-Mo (April 21, 1965 – March 9, 2019) was a South Korean

amateur boxer Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations. Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three ...

Career

He won a Light Flyweight bronze medal at the

1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Munich, West Germany from May 4 to 15. The third edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, was organised by the world governi ...

. Heo captured a

Flyweight Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing above 49 kg (108 lb) and up to 51 kg (112 lb). Professional boxing The flyweight division was the last of b ...

silver medal in the 1983 Boxing World Cup in Rome, Italy, beating Australian boxing legend

Jeff Fenech Jeff Fenech (born 28 May 1964) is an Australian former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2008. He won world titles in three weight divisions, having held the IBF bantamweight title from 1985 to 1987, the WBC super-bantamweight ...

by unanimous decision in the semifinals. Next year, Heo participated in the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the sec ...

. However, he, in a major upset, lost to Eyüp Can of Turkey by split decision in the quarterfinals. Heo served as a middle school teacher in

Yeosu Yeosu (; ''Yeosu-si''), historically also Yosu, and known to the Japanese as Reisui during the period when Korea was under Japanese rule, is a city located on the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula in South Jeolla Province, South Korea an ...

Jeollanam-do South Jeolla Province (; ''Jeollanam-do''; ), also known as Jeonnam, is a province of South Korea. South Jeolla has a population of 1,902,324 (2014) and has a geographic area of located in the Honam region at the southwestern tip of the Korean ...

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* 1965 births Olympic boxers of South Korea Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics 2019 deaths Asian Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 1982 Asian Games South Korean male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Light-flyweight boxers 20th-century South Korean people {{Korea-boxing-bio-stub