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Lázaro Jorge Álvarez Estrada (born 28 January 1991) is a Cuban
amateur boxer Amateur boxing is a variant of boxing practiced at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations. Amateur boxing bouts are short in duration, comprising three rounds of three ...
who won the world title in 2011, 2013 and 2015. He also won gold medals at the 2011, 2015, and 2019 Pan American Games and bronze medals at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympics. He is a southpaw.


Career

In the final of 2011 World Championships, he beat Luke Campbell from England after 3 rounds with 14–10 final score. Later that year he also won the 2011 Pan American title vs Mexican
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. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing at bantamweight, he beat American
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and Robenílson Vieira of Brazil but lost to Irishman
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14-19 in the semifinal and won bronze. He lost in the final of the Cuban Championships to Robeisy Ramirez. After 2012, he moved up to lightweight. Álvarez won the lightweight title at the 2013 AIBA World Championships, beating Joseph Cordina,
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Saylom Ardee Sailom Adi ( th, สายลม อาดี, , also known as Saylom Ardee, born 7 July 1986 at Ban Phai District, Khon Kaen Province) is a Thai amateur boxer who competed at featherweight at the 2008 Olympics and at lightweight at the 2012 Lon ...
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Berik Abdrakhmanov Berik Abdrakhmanov (born 20 June 1986) is a Kazakhstani amateur boxer in the lightweight division who competed at the 2013 World Championships, won the Bronze medal along with Domenico Valentino of Italy.Robson Donato Conceicao. In 2014, he won the Cuban title. At the 2015 Pan American Games, he won gold, beating Elvis Severino Rodriguez, Kevin Luna and
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along the way. That year, he also won the World Series of Boxing final, against Zakir Safiullin. He won the bronze medal at the men's lightweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, losing to Conceicao in the semifinal. At the 2019 World Championships, he fought at featherweight, beating Peter McGrail, before losing to
Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov (born 27 February 1995) is an Uzbek professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2019 World Championships, 2019 Asian Championships, and 2018 Asian Games. Amateur career Olympic result Tokyo 2020 *R ...
in the final.


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