Raúl González Sánchez (born June 5, 1967) is a

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from

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, who won the silver medal in the Men's Flyweight Division (– 51 kg) at the

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. In the final he lost to

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's Choi Chol-Su. Three years later, at the

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, he captured the bronze medal in his weight division.

Career

U.S. boxer Rudolph Bradley said his first thought when Raúl González put him down was, "Man, he's strong. I knew the Cubans were strong but I didn't think he could put me down. Yeah, I was in trouble, but I was boxing and moving, trying to get my head back. I've never been stopped, I've been hit hard hundreds of times in Army fights."Goodwill
(United Press International,) ''Detroit Free Press'', July 29, 1990, p. 40.

Olympic results

*Defeated Leszek Olszewski (Poland) 15-7 *Defeated Moses Malagu (Nigeria) RSC 2 (0:23) *Defeated David Serradas (Venezuela) 14-7 *Defeated

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(United States) RSC 1 (1:04) *Lost to Choi Chol-Su (North Korea) 2-12

References

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