Lorenzo Aragón

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Medal record
Lorenzo Aragón
Men’s Boxing
Competitor for  Cuba
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens	Welterweight
World Amateur Championships
Gold	2001 Belfast	Welterweight
Gold	2003 Bangkok	Welterweight
Pan American Games
Gold	2003 Santo Domingo	Welterweight

Lorenzo Aragón Armenteros (born April 28, 1974) is a Cuban boxer, who was a double world champ in the welterweight (69 kg) category.

Contents 1 Amateur career 2 Olympic results 3 Other amateur highlights 4 External links

[edit] Amateur career

Aragon competed at the 1996 Olympics as a featherweight, losing in the quarterfinals to Floyd Mayweather. Aragon won the world championships at welter in 2001 beating Anthony Thompson (2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships). He repeated his win in 2003 defeating Andre Berto.(2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships) and also was the 2003 Pan American Games champion.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal. He beat American Vanes Martirosyan but in the final, Aragón was defeated by surprise winner Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan with a score of 36-26.

Aragon was also a ten-time national amateur champion in Cuba, in each weight class between flyweight and welterweight.

[edit] Olympic results

1996 (Featherweight)

• Defeated Nouzedinne Medjihoud (Algeria) 9-6
• Defeated Rogerio de Brito (Brazil) 16-6
• Lost to Floyd Mayweather, Jr. (United States) 11-12

2004 (Welterweight)

• Defeated Theodoros Kotakos (Greece) RSC-3 (1:29)
• Defeated Vanes Martirosyan (United States) 20-11
• Defeated Ruslan Khairov (Azerbaijan) 16-14
• Defeated Kim Jung-Joo (South Korea) 38-10
• Lost to Bakhtiyar Artayev (Kazakhstan) 36-26

[edit] Other amateur highlights

• 1992 Cuban amateur flyweight champion
• 1992 Under-19 flyweight world champion.
• 1994 Cuban amateur bantmaweight champion, defeating Mario Kindelan
• 1994 Pan-American bantamweight champion
• 1995 Cuban amateur lightweight champion
• 1996 Cuban amateur featherweight champion
• 1997 Cuban amateur lightweight champion
• 1998 Cuban amateur Light welteweight champion
• 1999 Cuban amateur welterweight champion
• 2001 Cuban amateur welterweight champion
• 2001 World amateur welterweight champion at competition in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Results were:
  • Defeated Ryan Savage (Canada) RSC 3
  • Defeated Bae Ho-Jo (South Korea) RSC 3
  • Defeated Timour Gaidalov (Russia) 27-15
  • Defeated Sherzod Husanov (Uzbekistan) RSC 2
  • Defeated Anthony Thompson (United States) 27-15
• 2003 Cuban amateur welterweight champion
• 2003 World amateur welterweight champion at competition in Bangkok, Thailand. Results were:
  • Defeated Vilmos Balog (Hungary) 23-8
  • Defeated Bulent Ulusoy (Turkey) 18-17
  • Defeated Spas Genov (Bulgaria) 24-15
  • Defeated Manon Boonjamnong (Thailand) RSC 2
  • Defeated Andre Berto (United States) 25-15
• 2003 gold medalist at Pan-American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Results were:
  • Defeated Fabián Leonardo Velardes (Argentina) 23-4
  • Defeated Euris Gonzalez (Dominican Republic) 25-4
  • Defeated Juan McPherson (United States) 30-11
• 2004 Cuban amateur welterweight champion

[edit] External links

• Amateur Record

v • d • e World Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Welterweight 1974 – 2001: up to 67 kg  • 2003 – 2009: up to 69 kg 1974: Emilio Correa (CUB)  · 1978: Valery Rachkov (URS)  · 1982: Mark Breland (USA)  · 1986: Kenneth Gould (USA)  · 1989: Francisc Vaştag (ROM)  · 1991: Juan Hernández Sierra (CUB)  · 1993: Juan Hernández Sierra (CUB)  · 1995: Juan Hernández Sierra (CUB)  · 1997: Oleg Saitov (RUS)  · 1999: Juan Hernández Sierra (CUB)  · 2001: Lorenzo Aragón (CUB)  · 2003: Lorenzo Aragón (CUB)  · 2005: Erislandi Lara (CUB)  · 2007: Demetrius Andrade (USA)  · 2009: Jack Culcay-Keth (GER)

v • d • e Pan American Boxing Champions in Men's Welterweight 1951 – 1999: up to 67 kg • 2003 – 2007: up to 69 kg  1951: Ubaldo Pereyra (ARG)  •  1955: Joseph Dorando (USA)  •  1959: Alfredo Cornejo (CHI)  •  1963: Misael Vilugrón (CHI)  •  1967: Andrés Molina (CUB)  •  1971: Emilio Correa (CUB)  •  1975: Clinton Jackson (USA)  •  1979: Andrés Aldama (CUB)  •  1983: Louis Howard (USA)  •  1987: Juan Carlos Lemus (CUB)  •  1991: Juan Hernández (CUB)  •  1995: David Reid (USA)  •  1999: Juan Hernández (CUB)  •  2003: Lorenzo Aragón (CUB)  •  2007: Pedro Lima (BRA)

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