Arnaldo Mesa

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Mesa and the second or maternal family name is Bonell.

Arnaldo Mesa

Personal information
Born	(1967-12-06)December 6, 1967 Holguín, Cuba
Died	December 17, 2012(2012-12-17) (aged 45) Holguín, Cuba
Medal record Men’s Boxing Competitor for Cuba Olympic Games Silver 1996 Atlanta Bantamweight World Amateur Championships Bronze 1986 Reno Bantamweight Bronze 1989 Moscow Featherweight Bronze 1991 Sydney Featherweight Pan American Games Gold 1991 Havana Featherweight Gold 1995 Mar del Plata Featherweight

Arnaldo Mesa Bonell (6 December 1967 – 17 December 2012) was a retired boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. In the final of the Bantamweight (– 54 kg) division he was defeated by Hungary's István Kovács. A year earlier, at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, he captured the gold medal in his division. In 1986 he already won the bronze medal at the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Reno.

He died of a heart attack on 17 December 2012.

Olympic results

• Defeated John Larbi (Sweden) 19-5
• Defeated Zahir Raheem (United States) RSC 1 (2:15)
• Defeated Rachid Bouaita (France) 15-8
• Defeated Raimkul Malakhbekov (Russia) 14-14 (referee's decision)
• Lost to István Kovács (Hungary) 7-14

References

• databaseOlympics.com
• sports-reference