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| Full name | Leonel de los Santos Núñez | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dominican | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 14, 1994 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Lightweight | |||||||||||||||||
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Leonel de los Santos Nunez (born December 14, 1994) is a boxer from the Dominican Republic. [1] He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's flyweight event, where he was eliminated in the round of 32. [2] [3]
He also represented the Dominican Republic at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [4] [1]
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