Juan Hernández Sierra (born March 16, 1969) is a retired

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, who competed in the

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(< 67 kg) division during the 1990s. He represented his native country at three consecutive

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, starting in

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. After having won silver on his Olympic debut, he repeated that feat in

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in 1996. He became world champion in his division four times, in

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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

, and

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Olympic results

1992 * Defeated Said Bennajem (France) 6–0 * Defeated Jin-Chul Jun (South Korea) RSC 2 * Defeated Soren Antman (Sweden) RSC 3 * Defeated Aníbal Acevedo (Puerto Rico) 11–2 * Lost to Michael Carruth (Ireland) 10–13 1996 * Defeated Jozsef Nagy (Hungary) RSC 2 * Defeated Vadim Mezga (Belarus) 12–2 * Defeated Nurzhan Smanov (Kazakhstan) 16–8 * Defeated

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 Bo ...

(Romania) 20–7 * Lost to Oleg Saitov (Russia) 9–14 2000 * Defeated Stephan Nzue Mba (Gabon) RSC 3 * Defeated Mohamed Salad Marmouri (Tunisia) RSC 3 * Lost to Yermakhan Ibraimov (Kazakhstan) 9–16

External links

Juan Hernández
at databaseOlympics.com * * * 1969 births Living people Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 1991 Pan American Games Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1999 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Cuba Olympic silver medalists for Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Cuban male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games gold medalists in boxing Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba Competitors at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Pinar del Río Province 20th-century Cuban sportsmen {{Cuba-boxing-bio-stub