Yampier Hernández Gonzales (born 30 August 1984 in
Havana
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Cuba
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n boxer who won Bronze at the
2008 Olympics
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at
Light Flyweight
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.
Boxing career
Southpaw Hernández became Cuba' s number one only after
2004 Olympic Champion Yan Bartelemí, who had beaten him numerous times, had defected. He won the national championship in 2007 and 2008 but didn't medal at the PanAm Games 2007 after losing to
Luis Yanez
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.
At the second qualifier in 2008, he lost to
Winston Mendez Montero
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but beat
Oscar Negrete
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in the third place bout.
He lost his Olympic semifinal to Mongol
Pürevdorjiin Serdamba and won Bronze.
Olympic Games
2008 (as a Light Flyweight)
*Defeated
Sherali Dostiev
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(Tajikistan) 12-1
*Defeated
Georgiy Chygayev (Ukraine) 21-3
*Defeated
Paulo Carvalho (Brazil) 21-6
*Lost to
Pürevdorjiin Serdamba (Mongolia) 8-8
External links
Qualifier
Living people
Light-flyweight boxers
1984 births
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Cuba
Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
Olympic medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Boxers from Havana
Cuban male boxers
21st-century Cuban people
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