Yosvany Veitía
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| Full name | Yosvany Veitía Soto |
| Born | March 12, 1992 Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba |
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| Country |  Cuba |
| Sport | Boxing |
| Event | Light Flyweight |
| Coached by | Rolando Acebal |
Medal record | |
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.[2]
Career
At the 2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships he won Bronze.
At the 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 Pan American Games (results) he lost the final to local Joselito Velazquez.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics (results) 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, the world's second best active boxer, pound for pound.
References
- ^ "Yosvany Veitía, segundo boxeador cubano eliminado en boxeo olímpico". Cubaencuentro.com (in Spanish). 2012-08-04.
- ^ "Yosvany Veitía Soto". EcuRed.cu (in Spanish).
External links
- Yosbany Veitia at Olympics.com
- Yosbany Veitia at Rio2016.com at the Wayback Machine (archived August 6, 2016)
- Yosbany Veitía at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Yosbany Veitia at AIBA.org (archived)
- Yosvany Veitia Soto at AIBA London 2012 website at the Wayback Machine (archived October 5, 2013)
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Categories:
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Light-flyweight boxers
- Pan American Games competitors for Cuba
- Boxers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Cuba
- Cuban male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in boxing
- People from Villa Clara Province
- World boxing champions
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games