Lenier Pero

Lenier Pero
Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Representing  Cuba
Pan American Games
2011 Guadalajara Heavyweight
2015 Toronto Super-heavyweight
Summer Youth Olympics
2010 Singapore Heavyweight
Junior World Championships
2010 Baku Heavyweight

Lenier Eunice Pero (born November 24, 1992, in Camagüey)[1] is a Cuban amateur boxer who has won two gold medals in the Pan American Games. He is a southpaw.

In 2010 he became Junior World Champion. At the 2011 Pan American Games he first defeated Canadian Steve Couture, then Argentinian Yamil Peralta. In the final he beat fellow southpaw Julio Castillo from Ecuador. He won the Super-heavyweight title at the 2015 Pan American Games.

He reached the quarter-finals of the 2016 Olympics, where he lost to Filip Hrgović of Croatia.

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