Idel Torriente Leal (born September 9, 1986) is a

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amateur boxer who won the Pan American

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title 2007 and qualified for the Olympics.

Career

In 2006 the southpaw beat teenage star

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in the semis of the bantamweight national championships but lost the final to superstar

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4:13. He went up to featherweight and won the national title vs Ivan Oñate 21:18. At the PanAms 2007 he beat Jesús Cuéllar (Arg),

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(Jam),

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and

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(PR) in the final 7:5. He lost his national title 2008 to archrival Iván Oñate but was sent to the qualifier where he qualified for the Olympics by beating

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and Luis Enrique Porozo. In Beijing he beat Prince Octopus Dzanie 11:2, Enkhzorig Zorigtbaatar 10:9 but lost to

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16:18 and didn't medal. In 2009 he went up to lightweight but lost the national final to Lorenzo Sotamayor. He was sent regardless to the

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where he beat two unknowns then ran into favorite

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and lost 5:10.

References

National title 2007

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