Juan Hernández Sierra (born March 16, 1969) is a retired amateur boxer from Cuba, who competed in the welterweight (< 67 kg) division during the 1990s. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. After having won silver on his Olympic debut he repeated that feat in Atlanta, United States in 1996.
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| Full name | Juan Hernández Sierra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 16, 1969 (age 55) Guane, Pinar del Río, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He became world champion in his division four times, in 1991, 1993, 1995 and 1999.
Olympic results
edit1992
- Defeated Said Bennajem (France) 6–0
- Defeated Jin-Chul Jun (South Korea) RSC 2
- Defeated Soren Antman (Sweden) RSC 3
- Defeated Aníbal Acevedo (Puerto Rico) 11–2
- Lost to Michael Carruth (Ireland) 10–13
1996
- Defeated Jozsef Nagy (Hungary) RSC 2
- Defeated Vadim Mezga (Belarus) 12–2
- Defeated Nurzhan Smanov (Kazakhstan) 16–8
- Defeated Marian Simion (Romania) 20–7
- Lost to Oleg Saitov (Russia) 9–14
2000
- Defeated Stephan Nzue Mba (Gabon) RSC 3
- Defeated Mohamed Salad Marmouri (Tunisia) RSC 3
- Lost to Yermakhan Ibraimov (Kazakhstan) 9–16
External links
edit- Juan Hernández at databaseOlympics.com
- Juan Hernández Sierra at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Juan Hernandez Sierra at Olympics.com
- "Amateur Record". Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2006-08-26.
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