- Diógenes Luña
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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Luña and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.
Medal record Men’s Boxing Competitor for 
CubaOlympic Games Bronze 2000 Sydney Light Welterweight World Amateur Championships Gold 2001 Belfast Light Welterweight Pan American Games Bronze 1999 Winnipeg Light Welterweight Central American and Caribbean Games Gold 1998 Maracaibo Welterweight Diógenes Luña Martínez (born May 1, 1977) is a boxer from Cuba, who won the bronze medal in the light welterweight division (– 63.5 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In the semifinals he was defeated by eventual runner-up Ricardo Williams from the United States. A year later he won the world title at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Results
- 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Kevin Placide (Trinidad) RSC-3
- Defeated Julio Jean (Haiti) RSC-1
- Defeated José Luis Zertuche (Mexico) +26:26
- 1999 Pan American Games
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Gibeon Gonzalez (Virgin Islands) RSC-1
- Lost to Victor Hugo Castro (Argentina) 3:6
- 2000 Olympic Games
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Willy Blain (France) 25:14
- Defeated Saleh Abdelbary Maksoud (Egypt) RSC-2
- Lost to Ricardo Williams, Jr. (United States) 41:42
References
World Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Light Welterweight 1974 – 2001: up to 63,5 kg • 2003 – 2011: up to 64 kg1974: Ayub Kalule (UGA) • 1978: Valery Lvov (URS) • 1982: Carlos García (CUB) • 1986: Vassili Shyshov (URS) • 1989: Igor Ruzhnikov (URS) • 1991: Konstantin Tszyu (URS) • 1993: Héctor Vinent (CUB) • 1995: Héctor Vinent (CUB) • 1997: Dorel Simion (ROM) • 1999: Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev (UZB) • 2001: Diógenes Luña (CUB) • 2003: Willy Blain (FRA) • 2005: Serik Sapiyev (KAZ) • 2007: Serik Sapiyev (KAZ) • 2009: Roniel Iglesias (CUB) · 2011: Éverton Lopes (BRA)
Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- Cuban boxers
- Light-welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Cuba
- Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Cuban boxing biography stubs
- Cuban Olympic medalist stubs
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