Lenier Pero
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men’s Boxing | ||
Representing ![]() | ||
Pan American Games | ||
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2011 Guadalajara | Heavyweight |
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2015 Toronto | Super-heavyweight |
Summer Youth Olympics | ||
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2010 Singapore | Heavyweight |
AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships | ||
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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
- ^ data Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
Categories:
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Boxers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Heavyweight boxers
- Cuban male boxers
- Boxers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Boxers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in boxing