Ángel Herrera Vera
 Angel Herrera battling Siegfried Mehnert (GDR) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Angel Herrera Vera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 2, 1957 Guantánamo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Lightweight and Featherweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ángel Herrera Vera (born August 2, 1957 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban boxer, who won two Olympic gold medals, and the world title at the second World Championships in Belgrade.
First competing in the featherweight (– 57 kg) category, he won the 1976 Olympics as well as the 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He then competed in lightweight (– 60 kg) to win another Olympic gold in 1980, and his second World Title in Munich, West Germany. In 1983 he won a silver medal at the Pan American Games.
Results
1976 Summer Olympics
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Rai Sik (India) KO 1
- Defeated Angel Pacheco (Venezuela) 5-0
- Defeated Davey Lee Armstrong (United States) 3-2
- Defeated Juan Paredes (Mexico) 5-0
- Defeated Richard Nowakowski (East Germany) KO 2
1978 World Amateur Championships
- Defeated Hirochi Ganobe (Japan) RSC-3
- Defeated Viorel Ioana (Romania) walk-over
- Defeated Roman Gotfryd (Poland) 5:0
- Defeated Bratislav Ristić (Yugoslavia) 4:1
1980 Summer Olympics
- Defeated Carlo Russolillo (Italy) 5-0
- Defeated Geza Tumbas (Yugoslavia) 5-0
- Defeated Galsandorj Batbileg (Mongolia) 5-0
- Defeated Kazimierz Adach (Poland) 5-0
- Defeated Viktor Demyanenko (USSR) TKO 3
1982 World Amateur Championships
- Defeated Juhito Arai (Japan) 5:0
- Defeated Kosem Barake (Israel) KO-2
- Defeated Lofti Belkhir (Tunisia) RSC-1
- Defeated Viorel Ioana (Romania) 4:1
- Defeated Pernell Whitaker (United States) 3:2
References
1904: 115–125 lb (52.2–56.7 kg) · 1908: 116–126 lb (52.6–57.2 kg) · 1920–1928: 118–126 lb (53.5–57.2 kg) · 1932–1936: 119–126 lb (54.0–57.2 kg) · 1948: 54–58 kg · 1952–2008: 54–57kg · 2020–2024: 53–57 kg · 2024–: 52–57 kg | |
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1904: 125–135 lb (56.7–61.2 kg) · 1908: 126–140 lb (57.2–63.5 kg) · 1920–1936: 126–135 lb (57.2–61.2 kg) · 1948: 58–62 kg · 1952–2008: 57–60 kg · 2012: 56–60 kg · 2016: 57–60 kg · 2020–2024: 58–63 kg · 2024–: 58–63.5 kg | |
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