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Lenier Pero

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Lenier Pero
Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Representing  Cuba
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Heavyweight
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Super-heavyweight
Summer Youth Olympics
Gold medal – first place 2010 Singapore Heavyweight
AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Baku Heavyweight

Lenier Eunice Pero (born November 24, 1992, in Camagüey)[1] is a Cuban amateur boxer who has won two gold medals in the Pan American Games. He is a southpaw.

In 2010 he became Junior World Champion. At the 2011 Pan American Games he first defeated Canadian Steve Couture, then Argentinian Yamil Peralta. In the final he beat fellow southpaw Julio Castillo from Ecuador. He won the Super-heavyweight title at the 2015 Pan American Games.

He reached the quarter-finals of the 2016 Olympics, where he lost to Filip Hrgović of Croatia.

References

  1. ^ data Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine