Félix Savón Fabre is a Cuban former amateur boxer who competed from 1980 to 2000. Considered one of the all-time greatest amateurs, he became three-time Olympic gold medalist, and the World Champion six times in a row, all in the heavyweight division. In 1988, when he was favored by many to win the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Cuban government boycotted the event. Savón is particularly known for having rejected numerous multimillion-dollar offers to defect, leave Cuba permanently to fight Mike Tyson as a professional.
Mario César Kindelán Mesa, best known as Mario Kindelán, is a Cuban former amateur boxer. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, having competed in the lightweight division at the 2000 and 2004 events. His cousin is baseball player Orestes Kindelán.
Bolat Zhumadilov is a Kazakh boxer who competed in the Men's Flyweight at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and won silver medals on both occasions. He won the world title at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas, United States.
Yermakhan Ibraimov is a Kazakh boxer who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. Four years earlier, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he got a bronze medal. He also won a bronze at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas, and a silver at the previous edition in Budapest. His first coach is Bakshar Karsybaev.
Light flyweight, also known as junior flyweight or super strawweight, is a weight class in boxing.
Maikro Romero is a Cuban boxer, who won the gold medal in the Men's Flyweight category at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Volodymyr Sydorenko, also known as Wladimir Sidorenko, is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2010, and held the WBA bantamweight title from 2005 to 2008. As an amateur, he won a silver medal at the 2001 World Championships, and consecutive golds at the 1998 and 2000 European Championships; all in the flyweight division. His twin brother is former amateur boxer Valeriy Sydorenko.
Omar Andrés Narváez is an Argentine professional boxer. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBO flyweight title from 2002 to 2010, and the WBO junior bantamweight title from 2010 to 2014. As an amateur, Narváez represented Argentina at the 2000 Olympics, reaching the round of 16 of the super flyweight bracket.
Andrew Maynard is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2000. As an amateur boxer, he won the gold medal in the Light Heavyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Brahim Asloum is a French boxer. He won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. His Olympic win was France's first Olympic gold medal in boxing in 64 years.
Albert Aleksandrovich Pakeyev, or Albert Pakeev, is a boxer from Russia who won the bronze medal in the Men's Flyweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. He won the title at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Vejle, Denmark.
Suban Pannon is a Thai amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games.
Eric Arturo Morel is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight champion.
Sergey Kazakov is a Russian amateur boxer best known for winning the World Championships 2003 and European Championships 1998, 2002 and 2004 in the Men's Light Flyweight.
Ronald "Ron" Siler Jr. is an American former amateur boxer who competed for the United States at the 2004 Olympics. He is now a boxing coach at the Cincinnati Golden Gloves gym.
Lernik Papyan is a retired boxer from Armenia. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, in the men's flyweight (51 kg) division. Papyan lost in the second round to eventual gold medalist Maikro Romero of Cuba. Earlier, Papyan represented the Soviet Union at the 1986 Goodwill Games.
Elias Recaido is a retired boxer from the Philippines, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There he was defeated in the quarterfinals of the Men's Flyweight division by Cuba's eventual gold medalist Maikro Romero (3:18). He won a bronze medal at the 1990 Asian Games.
Marian Velicu is a boxer from Romania, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Light Flyweight division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland. A year later he captured the silver medal in the same weight division at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast.
The 13th Pan American Games were held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from July 23 to August 8, 1999.
José Luís Varela Bustamente is a Venezuelan professional boxer who has challenged four times for a world mini flyweight championship; the WBO title in 2006, and both the WBA and IBF (twice) titles in 2008.
