Faustino Reyes

Faustino Reyes López ( born April 4, 1975 in Marchena ) is a former Spanish boxer in the featherweight and silver medalist of the Olympic Summer Games 1992.

The 1.75 m wide featherweight ( to 57 kg) carried the name El Niño and struggle began at the age of 13 years with the sport of boxing. It was established in 1988 Spanish Junior Champion, 1990 and 1991 Spanish Junior Champion, and 1991 and 1995 Spanish Champion.

His greatest successes came in 1992. It reached number 5 in the Junior European Championships in Scotland, won the European Olympic qualifying tournament in Greece and the pre-Olympic test tournament " Pre- Olympic Tournament" in Badalona. He defeated among others, his compatriot Manuel Calvo, the Canadian Michael Strange and the Australian Jamie Nicholson. Then he started at the age of 17 years at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, ​​where he challenges the British Brian Carr ( 22:10 ), the Thais Somluck Kamsing ( 24:15 ), the Cubans Eddy Suárez ( 17:7 ) and prevailed Ramaz Paliani from United Team ( 14:9 ) and reached the final. There, he lost to the German Andreas Tews ( 9:16 ), so that won the silver medal and also became the youngest Spanish medalist at the Olympic Games.

He was then still participants in the World Championships of 1995 and 1997, as well as the European Championships of 1996 but occurred in all three events not go beyond the second round. In the 1995 World Cup, he was defeated by Oktay Urkal.