Joahnys Oscar Argilagos Perez (born 11 January 1997) is a Cuban

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. As an

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, he won a bronze medal at the

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as well as winning a gold medal at both the

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and 2017 World Championships. Argilagos took up boxing in 2007 at the age of 10. He is fighting at amateur level for the

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, under the auspices of the (amateur) International Boxing Association. He has won the 2013 AIBA Junior World Championships, the 2015 AMBC American Confederation Boxing Championships, and the

2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships The 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships was held at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena in Doha, Qatar from 5 to 18 October 2015. This was a qualifying tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Opening ceremony World pro boxing champions Mike ...

in light flyweight. He also won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games and a bronze at the 2016 Olympics.

Amateur career

Olympic result

Rio 2016 *Round of 16: Defeated

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(Great Britain) 2–1 *Quarter-finals: Defeated Peter Mungai Warui (Kenya) 3–0 *Semi-finals: Defeated by

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(Colombia) 2–1

World Championship results

Doha 2015 *Round of 16: Defeated

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(Spain) 3–0 *Quarter-finals: Defeated

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(Republic of Ireland) 3–0 *Semi-finals: Defeated Dmytro Zamotayev (Ukraine) 3–0 *Final: Defeated Vasilii Egorov (Russia) 3–0 Hamburg 2017 *Second round: Defeated Oscar Collazo (Puerto Rico) 3–2 *Quarter-finals: Defeated Salah Ibrahim (Germany) 5–0 *Semi-finals: Defeated Zhomart Yerzhan (Kazakhstan) 5–0 *Final: Defeated

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(Uzbekistan) 3–2

Pan American Games result

Toronto 2015 *Quarter-finals: Defeated Kevin Arias (Nicaragua) 2–0 *Semi-finals: Defeated Yoel Finol (Venezuela) 2–1 *Final: Defeated by

Joselito Velázquez Joselito Velázquez Altamirano (born 30 September 1993) is a Mexican professional boxer. As an amateur he won gold medals at the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games, and represented Mexico at the 2016 Olympics. Early life Velázquez was born in th ...

(Mexico) 3–0

Defection

In March 2018, Argilagos failed to appear at a weigh-in during a tournament in

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. It was thought that Argilagos had defected from Cuba to become professional, following the likes of Luis Ortiz,

Guillermo Rigondeaux Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and ''Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 an ...

and Yuriorkis Gamboa who had all previously defected from Cuba and later became professional.

Professional boxing record

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Argilagos, Joahnys 1997 births Living people Cuban male boxers Olympic boxers of Cuba Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Pan American Games medalists in boxing Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba Boxers at the 2015 Pan American Games AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists World boxing champions Light-flyweight boxers Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games