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Yosvany Veitía
Personal information
Full name	Yosvany Veitía Soto
Born	12 March 1992 (age 32); Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba
Sport
Country	Cuba
Sport	Boxing
Event	Light flyweight
Coached by	Rolando Acebal
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing Cuba
World Amateur Championships
Pan American Games
Pan American Championship
Central American and Caribbean Games
Youth World Championships

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Yosvany Veitía Soto (also spelled Yosbany, born 12 March 1992) is a Cuban amateur boxer in the light flyweight division who competed at the 2012 Olympics.^[1] He is a southpaw.^{[citation needed]}

Career

At the 2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships he won a bronze medal.

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat Birzhan Zhakypov and two unknowns but was stopped by Mongolian defending champion Pürevdorjiin Serdamba. At the 2011 Pan American Games he lost the final to local Joselito Velázquez.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he beat Australian Billy Ward 26:4, then lost to eventual winner Zou Shiming 10:13.

He also holds two notable wins over Naoya Inoue, ranked as the world's second best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring, the Boxing Writer's Association of America,^[2] The Transnational Boxing Ranking Board, ESPN, and fourth overall by BoxRec.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[7]

References

^ "Yosvany Veitía, segundo boxeador cubano eliminado en boxeo olímpico". Cubaencuentro.com (in Spanish). 4 August 2012.
^ "Boxing pound-for-pound rankings: Terence Crawford or Naoya Inoue? And what about Errol Spence Jr.?". ESPN.com. ESPN. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Ratings-The Ring". The Ring. The Ring. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Terence Crawford Is The BWAA's New No. 1 Pound-For-Pound King". Boxing Writer's Association of America. Boxing Writer's Association of America. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Transnational Boxing Rankings Board P4P Rankings". The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "BoxRec Male Pound for Pound Rankings". BoxRec. BoxRec. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Boxing VEITIA Yosbany". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

External links

Yosvany Veitía at Olympics.com
Yosvany Veitía at Olympedia

[1] "Yosvany Veitía, segundo boxeador cubano eliminado en boxeo olímpico". Cubaencuentro.com (in Spanish). 4 August 2012.

[2] "Boxing pound-for-pound rankings: Terence Crawford or Naoya Inoue? And what about Errol Spence Jr.?". ESPN.com. ESPN. Retrieved 19 August 2023.

[3] "Ratings-The Ring". The Ring. The Ring. Retrieved 19 August 2023.

[4] "Terence Crawford Is The BWAA's New No. 1 Pound-For-Pound King". Boxing Writer's Association of America. Boxing Writer's Association of America. Retrieved 19 August 2023.

[5] "Transnational Boxing Rankings Board P4P Rankings". The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Retrieved 19 August 2023.

[6] "BoxRec Male Pound for Pound Rankings". BoxRec. BoxRec. Retrieved 19 August 2023.

[7] "Boxing VEITIA Yosbany". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

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 At the [[2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships]] he won a bronze medal.
-At the [[2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Light flyweight#Bottom half|2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships (results)]] he beat [[Birzhan Zhakypov]] and two unknowns but was stopped by Mongolian defending champion [[Pürevdorjiin Serdamba]].
+At the [[2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships – Light flyweight#Bottom half|2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships]] he beat [[Birzhan Zhakypov]] and two unknowns but was stopped by Mongolian defending champion [[Pürevdorjiin Serdamba]].
-At the [[Boxing at the 2011 Pan American Games – Light flyweight#Results|2011 Pan American Games (results)]] he lost the final to local [[Joselito Velázquez]].
+At the [[Boxing at the 2011 Pan American Games – Light flyweight#Results|2011 Pan American Games]] he lost the final to local [[Joselito Velázquez]].
 At the [[Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's light flyweight#Top half|2012 Summer Olympics]] he beat Australian [[Billy Ward (boxer)|Billy Ward]] 26:4, then lost to eventual winner [[Zou Shiming]] 10:13.