Jorge Gutiérrez Espinosa (born 18 September 1975, in
Camagüey
Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 321,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.
It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by S ...
) is a former
boxer from
Cuba
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. He won the
Middleweight Gold medal at the
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
.
Gutiérrez's Olympic results were:
*Defeated
Somchai Chimlum
Somchai Chimlum ( th, สมชาย ฉิมรัมย์, , born 22 February 1976) is a Thai boxer. He initially fought Muay Thai matches under the stage name Namna Prasathinphanomrung (), and is a former Lumpinee champion. He later shifte ...
(Thailand) 20–11
*Defeated
Antonios Giannoulas (Greece) 20–7
*Defeated
Adrian Diaconu
Adrian Diaconu (born 9 June 1978) is a Romanian former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2011, and held the WBC light-heavyweight title from 2008 to 2009. As an amateur he won a silver medal in the middleweight division at the 199 ...
(Romania) KO 1
*Defeated
Vugar Alekperov
Vugar Mursal Alakbarov ( az, Vüqar Mursal Ələkbərov; born 5 January 1981) is an Azerbaijani boxer.
Alakbarov competed in the middleweight class (−75 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. At the 2004 Summer Olymp ...
(Azerbaijan) 19–9
*Defeated
Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov
Gaydarbek Abdulovich Gaydarbekov (russian: Гайдарбек Абдулович Гайдарбеков) (born October 6, 1976 in Kaspiysk, USSR) is a Russian boxer of Avar heritage, who has won two Olympic medals in Middleweight including t ...
(Russia) 17–15
He was technically too old to compete in the 1994 World Junior Championship. He was 19 years old, born in 1975 (the limit was 1976).
Amateur highlights
* 1994 World Junior champion at 71 kg
* 1998 World cup champion at 75 kg
* 1999 Pan American Games champion at 71 kg
* 1999 World Championship Silver medalist, losing by WO to
Marian Simion
Marian Simion (born 14 September 1975 in București) is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He repeated that feat one year later, at the 2001 World Amateur B ...
(ROM)
References
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1975 births
Boxers at the 1999 Pan American Games
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Cuba
Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
Living people
Sportspeople from Camagüey
Olympic medalists in boxing
Cuban male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in boxing
Middleweight boxers
Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
20th-century Cuban people
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