Juan Bautista Hernández Pérez

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Olympic medal record
Men's Boxing
Gold 1980 Moscow Bantamweight

Juan Bautista Hernández Pérez (born December 24, 1962) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who won the golden medal in the Bantamweight division (-54 kg) at age seventeen at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he defeated Venezuela's Bernardo Piñango on points (5-0).

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Olympic Champions in Boxing Bantamweight
1904: 105-115 lb (47.6-52.2 kg), 1908: - 116 lb (52.6 kg), 1920-1928: 112-118 lb (50.8-53.5 kg), 1932+1936: 112-119 lb (50.8-54.0 kg), 1948-2004: 51-54 kg
1904: Oliver Kirk • 1908: Henry Thomas • 1920: Clarence Walker • 1924: William H. Smith • 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini • 1932: Horace Gwynne • 1936: Ulderico Sergo • 1948: Tibor Csík • 1952: Pentti Hämäläinen • 1956: Wolfgang Behrendt • 1960: Oleg Grigoryev • 1964: Takao Sakurai • 1968: Valerian Sokolov • 1972: Orlando Martínez • 1976: Gu Yong-Ju • 1980: Juan Hernández • 1984: Maurizio Stecca • 1988: Kennedy McKinney • 1992: Joel Casamayor • 1996: István Kovács • 2000+2004: Guillermo Ortiz


[edit] Olympic results

  • 1st round bye
  • Defeated Sandor Farkas (Hungary) 4-1
  • Defeated Ayele Mohammed (Ethiopia) RSC 2
  • Defeated Geraldi Issaick (Tanzania) RSC 1
  • Defeated Michael Anthony (Guyana) 5-0
  • Defeated Bernardo Pinango (Venezuela) 5-0


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