Juan Hernández Sierra
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| Full name | Juan Hernández Sierra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 16, 1969 (age 52) Guane, Pinar del Río, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Juan Hernández Sierra (born March 16, 1969) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the welterweight (< 67 kg) division during the 1990s. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. After having won silver at his Olympic debut he repeated that feat in Atlanta, United States (1996).
Four times he became world champion in his division, in 1991, 1993, 1995 and 1999.
Olympic results[]
1992
- Defeated Said Bennajem (France) 6-0
- Defeated (South Korea) RSC 2
- Defeated Soren Antman (Sweden) RSC 3
- Defeated Aníbal Acevedo (Puerto Rico) 11-2
- Lost to Michael Carruth (Ireland) 10-13
1996
- Defeated (Hungary) RSC 2
- Defeated Vadim Mezga (Bulgaria) 12-2
- Defeated (Kazakhstan) 16-8
- Defeated Marian Simion (Romania) 20-7
- Lost to Oleg Saitov (Russia) 9-14
2000
- Defeated Stephan Nzue Mba (Gabon) RSC 3
- Defeated (Tunisia) RSC 3
- Lost to Yermakhan Ibraimov (Kazakhstan) 9-16
External links[]
- Juan Hernández at databaseOlympics.com
- Juan Hernández Sierra at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Juan Hernandez Sierra at the International Olympic Committee
- "Amateur Record". Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2006-08-26.
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