- Yankiel Leon
Yankiel León Alarcón (26. April 1982 in
Jobabo ) is aCuba n amateur boxer best known to qualify for the2008 Olympics at bantamweight.Career
Leon won gold at the World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary in 2000 as a light flyweight.became senior national champion 2002 at flyweight then moved up.
At bantam he stood in the shadows of near-invincible two-time Olympic champion
Guillermo Rigondeaux who beat him eight times. When Rigondeaux was out injured in 2007 Leon lost at the national championships toYasniel Toledo .After it became clear that the banned Rigondeaux would not be sent to Beijing Leon trained harder and beat archrival Toledo and
Yurien Fabregas at the nationals 2008.He lost to local Dominican
Claudio Marrero in the first round of the "Copa Independencia" but breezed through his qualifier easily beating everybody including Marrero and fellow qualifierOscar Valdez to easily make it to the Olympics.He holds wins over
Yan Barthelemy ,Yuriorkis Gamboa andIvan Calderon (PUR) among others.Olympic games results
*1st round bye
*DefeatedKanat Abutalipov (Kazakhstan) 10-3
*DefeatedWorapoj Petchkoom (Thailand) 10-2
*DefeatedBruno Julie (Mauritius) 7-5External links
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Nationalchamps/Cuba2008.html Nationals 2008]
* [http://www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AmericanOlyQual2008_1.html Qualifier]
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