Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo (born 14 August 1988) is a Cuban boxer, best known for winning the junior world title at lightweight in 2006, a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and a gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He went on to add to his already impressive Olympic resume by winning another gold medal at the

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at 33-years-old.

Career

In 2005, Iglesias won the national (senior) flyweight title as a 16-year-old when Olympic champion

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was out injured. He beat future two-time champ Yoandri Salinas and then Karel Luis in the final. However, the more experienced

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who had competed at junior flyweight was sent to the world championships. In 2006, he competed in January at the national (senior) championships at bantamweight and lost in the semifinal to

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, in September he had put on 6 more kilograms and won the 2006 world title at lightweight in

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. In the quarterfinals he beat

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and then Kazach Azamat Smagulov in the final. In 2008 he won the junior welter national senior championship, he beat Richard Poll 12:9 in the final and was sent to the Olympic qualifier in Trinidad where he beat another teenager

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in the semifinal to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics where he lost his semi to defending champion Manus Boonjumnong. In the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Iglesias won the gold medal by defeating Denys Berinchyk from

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by a score of 22-15. He later moved up to welterweight, which was the weight division he competed in at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Iglesias won a gold medal by defeating

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by a score of 5–0.

Results

;Beijing 2008 Olympic results *Defeated Mahaman Smaila (Cameroon) 15-1 *Defeated

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(Morocco) 15-4 *Defeated

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(Russia) 5-2 *Lost to Manus Boonjumnong (Thailand) 5-10 ;London 2012 Olympic results *Defeated Cesar Villarraga Aldana (Colombia) 20-9 *Defeated Everton Dos Santos Lopes (Brazil) 18-15 *Defeated Uktamjon Rahmonov (Uzbekistan) 21-15 *Defeated Vincenzo Mangiacapre (Italy) 15-8 *Defeated

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(Ukraine) 22-15 ;Rio 2016 Olympic results *Defeated

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(Armenia) TKO *Lost to Shakhram Giyasov (Uzbekistan) 3-0 ;Tokyo 2020 Olympic results *Defeated

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(Japan) 3–2 *Defeated

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(USA) 5–0 *Defeated

Andrey Zamkovoy Andrey Viktorovoich Zamkovoy ( rus, Андрей Викторович Замковой, , ɐnˈdrʲeɪ̯ zəmkɐˈvoɪ̯; born 4 July 1987) is a Russian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold at the 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships. Care ...

(Russia) 5–0 *Defeated

(Great Britain) 5–0

References

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Nationals 2008, Spanish
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