Diógenes Luna

Diógenes Luna Martínez ( born May 1, 1977) is a former Cuban amateur boxer. It was founded in 1994 Junior World Champion in lightweight, welterweight and 1998 World Cup winner 2001 world champion in the light welterweight division, he also won in 2000, a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Career

As a 17 -year-old he took in September 1994, in part at lightweight at the 8th Junior World Championships in Istanbul, where he wins against Ranko Tegeltija from Yugoslavia, Toufik Seddoud from Algeria, Vladimir Kolesnik from Ukraine, Andy Schiemann from Germany and Dmitri Pawlutschenko from Russia, won the gold medal.

In 1998 he won the 18th Central American and Caribbean Games in Venezuela, as well as the 8th World Cup in Beijing at welterweight. He hit it in the finals José Luis Zertuche from Mexico and Nurhan Süleymanoğlu from Turkey.

In 1999 and 2000 he was Cuban champion in the light welterweight division. In the 13th Pan American Games 1999 in Canada, he won a bronze medal in the light welterweight; He was there inferior to Argentina in the semifinals Víctor Castro. At the World Championships the same year in Houston, he was defeated in the quarterfinals against Lukáš Konečný from the Czech Republic.

In 2000 he represented Cuba in the Light Welterweight at the 27th Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. With wins over Willy Blain of France ( 25:14 ) and Saleh Abdelbary Maksoud from Egypt ( Ko), he moved into the semi-finals, where he almost lost to Ricardo Williams from the USA with 41:42.

In 2001, he was also in the light welterweight, winning the 27th Central American and Caribbean Championships in the Dominican Republic, where he the Mexican Juan De Dios Navarro defeated in the final. He also won the 11th World Championships in Belfast in June of the same year. He had in the light welterweight Domingos Santos here from Brazil, Ionut Dan Ion from Romania, Nasimi Ajdinow from Azerbaijan, Yuri Zolotov from Ukraine and Dimitar Schtilianow from Bulgaria defeated.

After 2002 Luna was already failed in the semifinals of the national championships, he could again reach the 2003 final, which he lost to Inocente Fiss ( 22:9 ). After an internal goers but he was able to put and competed at the 2003 World Championships in Bangkok, where he among other things, won against Baqyt Särsekbajew from Kazakhstan, however, in the quarterfinals Willy Blain, France ( 47:29 ), had to admit defeat. In the Same year he also started at the Pan American Games, in which he, however, also eliminated in the quarter- finals.

2005 Luna started again at the national championships, but failed in the first round and then finished his career.

Selection of tournament victories

• July 2000: Winner of the Giraldo Córdova Cardín tournament in Cuba, Light Welterweight, victories against Kelson Pinto ( Brazil ), Victor Castro ( Argentina), Tumentsetseg Uitumen (Mongolia) and Miguel Cotto (Puerto Rico)
• February 2003: Winner of the Strandja Tournament in Bulgaria, Light Welterweight, victories against Makar Malina (Russia), Baqyt Särsekbajew (Uzbekistan ) and Dimitar Schtilianow (Bulgaria)
• May 2003: Winner of the Giraldo Córdova Cardín tournament in Cuba, Light Welterweight, victories against Urantschimegiin monk - Erdene (Mongolia), Rudi Nelson Hardy ( Cuba) and Yudel Johnson ( Cuba)