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Enrique Carrión

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Enrique Carrion
Enrique Carrion (left) facing Frank Sygmund of Germany in Berlin, 1990
Personal information
Full nameEnrique Carrion
Nationality Cuba
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classBantamweight
Medal record
World Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place 1989 Moscow Bantamweight
Silver medal – second place 1991 Sydney Bantamweight
Silver medal – second place 1993 Tampere Featherweight
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold medal – first place 1993 Ponce Featherweight
Gold medal – first place 1998 Maracaibo Featherweight

Enrique Carrión Olivares (Santiago de Cuba, 11 October 1967) is a Cuban boxer best known to win the 1989 World Amateur Boxing Championships at bantamweight.[1]

He won the 1989 final against Bulgarian Serafim Todorov who beat him in 1991 and at featherweight in 1993. He didn't participate in the 1992 Olympics, where his replacement was future professional world champion Joel Casamayor, who secured the gold medal for Cuba.

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