Lázaro Álvarez

Lázaro Álvarez

Álvarez at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Lázaro Álvarez Estrada
Nationality	Cuba
Born	(1991-01-28) January 28, 1991
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Rated at	Bantamweight, lightweight
Medal record Representing  Cuba Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 2 World Championships 3 0 0 Pan American Games 2 0 0 Central American and Caribbean Games 1 0 0 Total 6 0 2 Olympic Games 2012 London Bantamweight 2016 Rio de Janeiro Lightweight World Amateur Championships 2011 Baku Bantamweight 2013 Almaty Lightweight 2015 Doha Lightweight Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara Bantamweight 2015 Toronto Lightweight Central American and Caribbean Games 2014 Veracruz Lightweight

Lázaro Álvarez Estrada (born 28 January 1991) is a Cuban amateur boxer who won the world title in 2011, 2013 and 2015. He also won gold medals at the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games and bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. He is a southpaw.

Career

In the final of 2011 World Championships, he beat Luke Campbell from England after 3 rounds with 14–10 final score.^[1][2]

Later that year he also won the 2011 Pan American title (results) vs Mexican Oscar Valdez.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics (results) he beat American Joseph Diaz and Robenílson Vieira but lost to Irish John Joe Nevin 14-19 and won Bronze.

He won the bronze medal at the men's lightweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[3]

References

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