Odlanier Solis
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Odlanier Solis Fonté (born April 5, 1980 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban Amateur boxer.
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[edit] Career as an amateur
His first international success was in 1998 the title at the panamerican Juniors championship in Toluca and the Juniors' World championship in Buenos Aires. In 1999 he won the Cuban championship beating Félix Savón. Until 2004 he defended his title five times consecutively.
In 2005 he switched from heavyweight to super heavyweight and lost in the finale to Michel López Núñez. In 2006 he won the title again for a seventh time.
[edit] World Championships
Solis became world champion in 2001 in Belfast and in 2003 in Bangkok in heavyweight, in 2005 in Mianyang in super heavyweight. In 2001 he beat Olympic silver medalist of 2000 Sultan Ibragimov in the semifinales by points and in the final British David Haye by knockout. In 2003 he won by points in the final against Alexander Alexeev.
[edit] Olympic Games
In 2000 he could not participate in the Olympic Games in Sydney, because Cuba wanted to allow hero Félix Savón to win his third consecutive Olympic gold, thereby equalizing the record of László Papp and Teófilo Stevenson. In the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens Solis won the heavyweight gold medal.
[edit] Career as a profesional
Odlanier Solis escaped from the national Cuban boxing team during a training in Venezuela for the Panamericans Games in Rio de Janeiro, he escaped with other two partners and reigning Olympic champions, Yan Bartelemi Varela and Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano. This will allow him to start a career as a profesional boxer.
[edit] Further tournaments won
- Chemiepokal - 2002, 2003, 2004
- Central American and Caribbean Championships - 1999
- Panamerican Games - 1999, 2003, 2005
[edit] External links
- His most important fights (span.)
