Ángel Herrera Vera

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Angel Herrera

Angel Herrera battling Siegfried Mehnert (GDR)

Personal information

Full name

Angel Herrera Vera

Nationality

Cuba

Born

August 2, 1957
Guantánamo

Height

1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)

Weight

57 kilograms (126 lb)

Sport

Boxing

Rated at

Lightweight and Featherweight

Medal record

Olympic Games
Gold	1976 Montreal	Featherweight
Gold	1980 Moscow	Lightweight
World Amateur Championships
Gold	1978 Belgrade	Featherweight
Gold	1982 Munich	Lightweight
Pan American Games
Silver	1983 Caracas	Lightweight

Ángel Herrera Vera (born August 2, 1957 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban boxer, who won two Olympic gold medals, and the world title at the second World Championships in Belgrade.

First competing in the featherweight (– 57 kg) category, he won the 1976 Olympics as well as the 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He then competed in lightweight (– 60 kg) to win another Olympic gold in 1980, and his second World Title in Munich, West Germany. In 1983 he won a silver medal at the Pan American Games.

Results

1976 Summer Olympics

1st round bye
Defeated Rai Sik (India) KO 1
Defeated Angel Pacheco (Venezuela) 5-0
Defeated Davey Lee Armstrong (United States) 3-2
Defeated Juan Paredes (Mexico) 5-0
Defeated Richard Nowakowski (East Germany) KO 2

1978 World Amateur Championships

Defeated Hirochi Ganobe (Japan) RSC-3
Defeated Viorel Ioana (Romania) walk-over
Defeated Roman Gotfryd (Poland) 5:0
Defeated Bratislav Ristić (Yugoslavia) 4:1

1980 Summer Olympics

Defeated Carlo Russolillo (Italy) 5-0
Defeated Geza Tumbas (Yugoslavia) 5-0
Defeated Galsandorj Batbileg (Mongolia) 5-0
Defeated Kazimierz Adach (Poland) 5-0
Defeated Viktor Demyanenko (USSR) TKO 3

1982 World Amateur Championships

Defeated Juhito Arai (Japan) 5:0
Defeated Kosem Barake (Israel) KO-2
Defeated Lofti Belkhir (Tunisia) RSC-1
Defeated Viorel Ioana (Romania) 4:1
Defeated Pernell Whitaker (United States) 3:2

References

Olympic profile

v t e Olympic boxing champions in Men's Featherweight

1904: 115–125 lb (52.2–56.7 kg), 1908: 116–126 lb (52.6–57.2 kg), 1920–1928: 118–126 lb (53.5–57.2 kg), 1932–1936: 119–126 lb (54.0–57.2 kg), 1948: 54–58 kg 1952–2008: 54–57 kg

1904: Oliver Kirk (USA) 1908: Richard Gunn (GBR) 1920: Paul Fritsch (FRA) 1924: Jackie Fields (USA) 1928: Bep van Klaveren (NED) 1932: Carmelo Robledo (ARG) 1936: Oscar Casanovas (ARG) 1948: Ernesto Formenti (ITA) 1952: Ján Zachara (TCH) 1956: Vladimir Safronov (URS) 1960: Francesco Musso (ITA) 1964: Stanislav Stepashkin (URS) 1968: Antonio Roldán (MEX) 1972: Boris Kuznetsov (URS) 1976: Ángel Herrera (CUB) 1980: Rudi Fink (GDR) 1984: Meldrick Taylor (USA) 1988: Giovanni Parisi (ITA) 1992: Andreas Tews (GER) 1996: Somluck Kamsing (THA) 2000: Bekzat Sattarkhanov (KAZ) 2004: Aleksei Tishchenko (RUS) 2008: Vasyl Lomachenko (UKR)

v t e Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Lightweight

1904: 125–135 lb (56.7–61.2 kg), 1908: 126–140 lb (57.2–63.5 kg), 1920–1936: 126–135 lb (57.2–61.2 kg), 1948: 58–62 kg, 1952–2008: 57–60 kg, 2012: 56–60 kg

1904: Harry Spanjer (USA) 1908: Frederick Grace (GBR) 1920: Samuel Mosberg (USA) 1924: Hans Jacob Nielsen (DEN) 1928: Carlo Orlandi (ITA) 1932: Lawrence Stevens (RSA) 1936: Imre Harangi (HUN) 1948: Gerald Dreyer (RSA) 1952: Aureliano Bolognesi (ITA) 1956: Richard McTaggart (GBR) 1960: Kazimierz Paździor (POL) 1964: Józef Grudzień (POL) 1968: Ronnie Harris (USA) 1972: Jan Szczepański (POL) 1976: Howard Davis (USA) 1980: Ángel Herrera (CUB) 1984: Pernell Whitaker (USA) 1988: Andreas Zülow (GDR) 1992: Oscar De La Hoya (USA) 1996: Hocine Soltani (ALG) 2000–2004: Mario Kindelán (CUB) 2008: Aleksei Tishchenko (RUS) 2012: Vasyl Lomachenko (UKR)

v t e World Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Featherweight

1974 – 2009: up to 57 kg

1974: Howard Davis (USA) 1978: Ángel Herrera (CUB) 1982: Adolfo Horta (CUB) 1986: Kelcie Banks (USA) 1989: Ayrat Khamatov (URS) 1991: Kirkor Kirkorov (BUL) 1993: Serafim Todorov (BUL) 1995: Serafim Todorov (BUL) 1997: István Kovács (HUN) 1999: Ricardo Juarez (USA) 2001: Ramaz Paliani (TUR) 2003: Galib Jafarov (KAZ) 2005: Aleksei Tishchenko (RUS) 2007: Albert Selimov (RUS) 2009: Vasyl Lomachenko (UKR)

v t e World Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Lightweight

1974 – 2011: up to 60 kg

1974: Vassily Solomin (URS) 1978: Davidson Andeh (NGR) 1982: Ángel Herrera (CUB) 1986: Adolfo Horta (CUB) 1989: Julio González (CUB) 1991: Marco Rudolph (GER) 1993: Damian Austin (CUB) 1995: Leonard Doroftei (ROM) 1997: Alexander Maletin (RUS) 1999: Mario Kindelán (CUB) 2001: Mario Kindelán (CUB) 2003: Mario Kindelán (CUB) 2005: Yordenis Ugás (CUB) 2007: Frankie Gavin (ENG) 2009: Domenico Valentino (ITA) 2011: Vasyl Lomachenko (UKR) 2013: Lázaro Álvarez (CUB)

Persondata
Name	Herrera, Angel
Alternative names
Short description	Boxer
Date of birth	August 2, 1957
Place of birth	Guantánamo
Date of death
Place of death

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