Enrique Carrión

Enrique Carrión medal table
Enrique Carrión (left) beats Frank Sygmund in 1990
Boxing
Cuba
World championships
gold	1989	Bantam
silver	1991	Bantam
silver	1993	feather
World cup
gold	1990	Bantam
gold	1998	Bantam
Goodwill Games
silver	1994	Bantam
Pan American Games
gold	1991	Bantam
Central America and Caribbean Games
gold	1993	feather
gold	1998	feather

Enrique Carrión Olivares (born October 11, 1967 ) is a former Cuban amateur boxer bantamweight and featherweight . He was one of the world's best boxers between 1989 and 1999.

Career

Enrique Carrión boxed in the normal display and played 361 amateur fights over the course of his career, of which he won 335. He was Cuban champion in 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 1999, with victories against top talents Waldemar Font , Joel Casamayor , Mario Kindelán and Ramón Ledón .

His first internationally significant success was winning the gold medal at the 1989 World Championships in Moscow . On the way to the title he defeated Benjamin Falcon from Mexico (32: 1), Katsuyuki Matsushima from Japan (28: 2), Adrian Marcut from Romania (35:12), Li Yon-Ho from North Korea (11: 6) and im Final the eventual three-time world champion Serafim Todorow from Bulgaria (19:12).

In 1990 he won the gold medal at the World Cup in Bombay when he was able to defeat Serafim Todorov again in the final.

In August 1991 he took part in the Pan American Games in Cuba and again secured a gold medal. Then he started in November at the World Championships in Sydney , where he advanced to the finals by winning against Wayne McCullough and Li Gwang-sik , but this time was eliminated by Serafim Todorow and thus won the silver medal.

In May 1993 he won the silver medal again at the World Championships in Tampere , after he had been outdone again in the final by Todorow. At the World Cup he had also won against Ramaz Paliani . In November of that year, he won the Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico .

In 1994 he won silver at the Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg and in 1998 gold at the World Cup in Beijing ; he beat the Olympian Sontaya Wongprates in the final. Also in 1998 he was able to win the Central America and Caribbean Games in Venezuela again .

In addition, he is tournament winner at competitions in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Germany.

His participation in the Olympic Games failed in 1988 through boycott of the Cuban team, 1992 through injury, and 1996 and 2000 through suspension due to positive doping tests.

Web links

• BoxRec
• Website; amateur-boxing.strefa.pl