Roniel Iglesias
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Career
In 2005, Iglesias won the national (senior) flyweight title as a 16-year-old when Olympic champion Yuriorkis Gamboa was out injured. He beat future two-time champ Yoandri Salinas and then Karel Luis in the final.[1] However, the more experienced Andry Laffita who had competed at junior flyweight was sent to the world championships.
In 2006, he competed in January at the national (senior) championships at bantamweight and lost in the semifinal to Idel Torriente, in September he had put on 6 more kilograms and won the 2006 world title at lightweight in Agadir, Morocco. In the quarterfinals he beat Éverton Lopes and then Kazach Azamat Smagulov in the final.[2]
In 2008 he won the junior welter national senior championship, he beat Richard Poll 12:9 in the final and was sent to the Olympic qualifier in Trinidad where he beat another teenager Javier Molina in the semifinal to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics where he lost his semi to defending champion Manus Boonjumnong.[3][4]
In the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Iglesias won the gold medal by defeating Denys Berinchyk from Ukraine by a score of 22–15.[5][4]
He later moved up to welterweight, which was the weight division he competed in at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[6] In the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Iglesias won a gold medal by defeating Pat McCormack from Great Britain by a score of 5–0.[7]
Results
- Beijing 2008 Olympic results
- Defeated Mahaman Smaila (Cameroon) 15-1
- Defeated Driss Moussaid (Morocco) 15-4
- Defeated Gennady Kovalev (Russia) 5-2
- Lost to Manus Boonjumnong (Thailand) 5-10
- London 2012 Olympic results
- Defeated Cesar Villarraga Aldana (Colombia) 20-9
- Defeated Everton Dos Santos Lopes (Brazil) 18-15
- Defeated Uktamjon Rahmonov (Uzbekistan) 21-15
- Defeated Vincenzo Mangiacapre (Italy) 15-8
- Defeated Denys Berinchyk (Ukraine) 22-15
- Rio 2016 Olympic results
- Defeated Vladimir Margaryan (Armenia) TKO
- Lost to Shakhram Giyasov (Uzbekistan) 3-0
- Tokyo 2020 Olympic results
- Defeated Sewon Okazawa (Japan) 3–2
- Defeated Delante Johnson (USA) 5–0
- Defeated Andrey Zamkovoy (Russia) 5–0
- Defeated Pat McCormack (Great Britain) 5–0
References
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External links
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- Nationals 2008, Spanish
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