Argenis Casimiro Núñez (born December 30, 1981) is a Dominican amateur boxer best known for winning two medals at the Pan Am Games.

Career

In 2003, at the Pan Am Games, he beat Washington Silva but lost to

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in the

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category and won bronze. In 2005, at the Pan Am Championships (not the Pan Am Games), he lost to Yusiel Napoles. He managed to lose weight and drop down to

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afterwards. At the Central American Games in 2006, he lost in the first round to eventual winner Yordanis Despaigne. At the Pan Am Games in 2007, he won silver at middleweight, losing to Emilio Correa. At the World Championships in 2007, he KO'd

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and beat two other fighters but did not win a medal because he lost to Ukrainian

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. However, he qualified for the

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, where he lost to Alfonso Blanco.

External links

PanAm 2003 results
Living people 1981 births Middleweight boxers Boxers at the 2003 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2007 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic male boxers Pan American Games silver medalists for the Dominican Republic Pan American Games boxers for the Dominican Republic Pan American Games bronze medalists for the Dominican Republic Pan American Games silver medalists in boxing Pan American Games bronze medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games 21st-century Dominican Republic sportsmen {{DominicanRepublic-boxing-bio-stub