Raúl González (boxer)

Raúl González Sánchez (born June 5, 1967 ) is a retired Cuban boxer . González was a bronze medalist at the 1995 World Championships and a silver medalist at the 1995 Pan American Games and the 1992 Olympic Games .

Career

González was Cuban flyweight champion (-51 kg) in 1989, 1990 and 1995 and beat u. a. Joel Casamayor .

In 1989 Gonzáles won the Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo . The following year he fought for a third place at the World Cup in Dublin , where he was eliminated in the semifinals against István Kovács , Hungary (20: 7). In 1992 he reached the Olympic Games after victories over Leszek Olszewski, Poland (15: 7), Moses Malagu, Nigeria (RSC 2nd), the winner of the Central American and Caribbean Games 1990 David Serradas, Venezuela (14: 7), and Tim Austin , USA (RSC 1st), the final. In this, González faced the North Korean Choi Chol-su , who had already defeated the world and European champions Kovács in the course of the tournament. He lost to him with 12: 2 points.

After not being able to assert himself at national level for two years, González qualified in 1995 for the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata , where he won the silver medal after a final defeat against Joan Guzmán, Dominican Republic (16:11). Only two months later he reached the World Championships in Berlin after he a. a. Rustam Rachimow , Tajikistan (8: 6), had beaten the semi-finals. In this he met the German representative Zoltan Lunka , to whom he was defeated with 11: 8 points.

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• amateur-boxing.strefa.pl