Fernando Arzola | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality |  Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||
Fernando Arzola is a Cuban [1] boxer. [2] [3] He competed at the 2023 IBA World Boxing Championships, winning the silver medal in the super heavyweight event. [4] He also competed at the 2023 Pan American Games, winning the bronze medal in the men's +92 kg event. [5]
Amateur boxing is the variant of boxing practiced in clubs and associations around the world, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as at the collegiate level.
Julio César De La Cruz Peraza is a Cuban professional boxer. As an amateur he won gold medals at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, and the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships. As a professional, he has qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Cuba competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's twentieth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The Cuban team consisted of 124 athletes, 89 men and 35 women, across eighteen sports.
Osleni Guerrero Velazco is a Cuban badminton player. He is the first Cuban badminton player to win a medal in the Pan American Games. Guerrero also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Cuba competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cuban delegation was their smallest since 1964, which coincidentally was also in Tokyo. It was the nation's twenty-first appearance at the Summer Olympics. Cuba improved on its 2016 result, by winning 7 gold and 15 total medals after 5 and 11 in Rio.
Tammara Thibeault is a Canadian boxer competing in the Middleweight category. Thibeault won the 2022 World Championship in Istanbul after earlier winning the middleweight bronze in 2019. She is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion when she won gold in Birmingham in 2022, improving on her bronze medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Thibeault is also the current Pan American Games champion when she won gold at the 2023 Pan Am Games, again improving on her bronze from the 2019 Pan American Games.
Yasmani Acosta Fernández is a Chilean-Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler competing in the 130-kilogram weight class. Born in Cuba, he now represents Chile in international competitions, though he has previously competed for Cuba.
Daniel Grégorich Hechavarria is a Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the 87 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile. He has also won gold medals at the Pan American Wrestling Championships and the Central American and Caribbean Games.
Audrys Nin Reyes is a Dominican artistic gymnast. He is the 2019 and 2023 Pan American Games vault champion. He was the first Dominican gymnast to win a gold medal at the Pan American Games. He was also the first Dominican gymnast to win a gold medal at an FIG World Cup event when he won the vault title at the 2017 Osijek World Challenge Cup. He is the 2017 Pan American vault and horizontal bar champion and the 2017 Universiade vault champion. He is also the 2018 and 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games vault champion. He has qualified to represent the Dominican Republic at the 2024 Summer Olympics, the first male gymnast from his country to do so.
Wanderson de Oliveira is a Brazilian boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Arturo Silot Torres is a Cuban freestyle wrestler who claimed the silver medal at the 2022 Pan American Championships and the gold medal from the 2021 Junior Pan American Games.
Cuba competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's twenty-second appearance at the Summer Olympics. The 2024 Cuban delegation was smaller than their 2020 delegation, which was previously their smallest delegation since 1964. It was also the second time since 1964 that the Cuban delegation had fewer than one hundred athletes.
The diving competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 27 July to 10 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. A total of 136 divers, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed across eight medal events at these Games, the same amount as Tokyo 2020.
The boxing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris ran from 27 July to 10 August. Preliminary boxing matches occurred at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte, with the medal rounds staged at the Stade Roland Garros.
The 2023 IBA World Boxing Championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 30 April to 14 May 2023. Athletes from all five continents took part in the championship and competed for medals in 13 weight categories, which were approved by the Board of Directors of the International Boxing Association (IBA) in July 2021.
Cuba competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September.
Javier Ibáñez Diaz is a Cuban-born Bulgarian boxer. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal in the men's featherweight event. He competed as a bantamweight as a youth, and currently competes as a featherweight.
Alejandro Claro Fiz is a Cuban boxer. He competed at the 2023 IBA World Boxing Championships, winning the bronze medal in the minimumweight event. He also competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the men's 51 kg event, but was defeated in the quarter-final by Billal Bennama.
Saidel Horta is a Cuban boxer. He competed at the 2023 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships, winning the silver medal in the featherweight event. He also competed at the 2023 Pan American Games, winning the silver medal in the men's 57 kg event.
Martín Molina is a Spanish boxer. He competed at the 2022 European Amateur Boxing Championships, winning the gold medal in the flyweight event. He also competed at the 2023 IBA Men's World Boxing Championships, winning the bronze medal in the same event.
 | This biographical article related to a Cuban boxer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
