Diógenes Luna
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| Born | May 1, 1977 Guantanamo, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Diógenes Luna Martínez (born May 1, 1977) is a boxer from Cuba, who won the bronze medal in the light welterweight division (– 63.5 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In the semifinals he was defeated by eventual runner-up Ricardo Williams from the United States. A year later he won the world title at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Results
[edit]- 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Kevin Placide (Trinidad) RSC-3
- Defeated Julio Jean (Haiti) RSC-1
- Defeated José Luis Zertuche (Mexico) +26:26
- 1999 Pan American Games
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Gibeon Gonzalez (Virgin Islands) RSC-1
- Lost to Victor Hugo Castro (Argentina) 3:6
- 2000 Olympic Games
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Willy Blain (France) 25:14
- Defeated Saleh Abdelbary Maksoud (Egypt) RSC-2
- Lost to Ricardo Williams, Jr. (United States) 41:42
References
[edit]- Diógenes Luna at Olympedia
- Diógenes Luna at InterSportStats
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- 1977 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Guantánamo
- Light-welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Cuba
- Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Cuban male boxers
- IBA Men's World Boxing Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games bronze medalists in boxing
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Cuban sportsmen
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