Yankiel Rivera

Yankiel Rivera Figueroa (born September 10, 1997) is a Puerto Rican flyweight boxer. He is the only boxer in his country who qualified to participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]

Yankiel Rivera
Statistics
NationalityPuerto Rican
BornYankiel Rivera Figueroa
(1997-09-10) September 10, 1997
Toa Alta, Puerto Rico
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Puerto Rico
Pan American Games
2019 LimaFlyweight
Central American and Caribbean Games
2018 BarranquillaFlyweight

Boxing career

Rivera won bronze at the Pan American Youth Championships in Quito in 2014.[2] He lost to Leandro Blanc in the quarter-finals of the 2016 continental Olympic qualification in Buenos Aires[3] and competed at the 2017 World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, where he lost to the eventual runner-up Jasurbek Latipov in the preliminary round.[4] At the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla[5] and also at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, he won a bronze medal in the flyweight division.[6]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American-continental Olympic qualification tournament in Buenos Aires planned for May 2021 was canceled and a qualification based on the continental ranking was decided instead, which secured Rivera a starting place as number 3 in the ranking.[7]

References
  1. "Yankiel Rivera will be the sole hope of Puerto Rican boxing at Tokyo 2020". olympics.com.
  2. "Panamerican Youth Championships 2014". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl.
  3. "American Olympic Qualifier 2016". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl.
  4. "World Championships 2017". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl.
  5. "Central American and Caribbean Games 2018". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl.
  6. "Panamerican Games2019" (PDF). amateur-boxing.strefa.pl.
  7. "Boxing Road to Tokyo Americas qualifier in Buenos Aires cancelled". Olympics.com.
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