Lázaro Álvarez

Lázaro Álvarez (born 28 January 1991) is a Cuban boxer. Àlvarez won the 2011 World Championships bantamweight and 2013 lightweight. In the 2012 Olympics he won the bronze medal in the bantamweight.

Career

For the first time on the international stage is Álvarez showed at the World Cadet Championships ( U17), 2007 in Baku, in which he was able to win the silver medal in the bantamweight. In the spring of the following year he was still 16 years old the first time took part in the national championships of men, but retired flyweight starting out in the first fight. In 2008 he also took part in the Junior World Championships ( U19), but different in the first fight from.

The Cuban Championships 2009 Alvarez dropped out in the second round, was allowed after the first time but still participate in international tournaments. He won a tournament in Santiago de Cuba in the lightweight (-60 kg).

His first success at national level in the men's area celebrated Álvarez at the 2010 Championships in Havana, where he won the silver medal. In the same year, he also won an international tournament in Venezuela.

2011 Álvarez won the qualification for the Pan American Games in Cumana and tournaments in Havana and Venezuela, and the silver medal in Barquisimeto. With these successes, he took back the first time at the world championships and won by defeating Robenilson de Jesus, Brazil ( 18:13), Denis Makarov, Germany ( ( 13:8 ), Vittorio Parrinello, Italy ( 13:11), Joseph Diaz, USA ( 19:10), in the semi-final against Anvar Yunusov, Tajikistan ( 18:13) and in the final against Luke Campbell, England ( 14:10) surprisingly the gold medal. with this success, he also qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

End of 2011, Alvarez won then the sovereign Pan American Games with a final victory against Óscar Valdez, Mexico ( 19:15).

In preparation for the Olympic Games took Álvarez in 2012 in several tournaments with the participation of other Olympians part. So he broke with his tournament victory in Sofia Detelin Dalakliew, Bulgaria ( 10:5 ) and Luke Campbell, England (16:9), lost in Usti against Vittorio Parrinello, Italy ( 11:14 ) and struck in Almaty Shiva Thapa, India ( 16 : 16) and lost to Kanat Abutalipov, Kazakhstan ( 17:17 ).

At the Olympic Games Álvarez won in the second round against Joseph Diaz, USA ( 21:15 ), in the quarterfinals against Robenilson de Jesus, Brazil ( 16:11), but lost in the semifinals against the Irishman John Joe Nevin ( 19:14 ) and won so that the Olympic bronze medal. The end of 2012 Álvares lost in the finals of the Cuban championships against the Ascended from the flyweight Olympic champion Robeisy Ramírez.

In order to escape Ramírez Álvarez started in 2013 in the lightweight ( - 60kg). At the world championships in the same year he became world champion at first. Towards this title he suggested, inter alia, Sailom Adi, Thailand ( 3-0), Berik Abdrakhmanov, Kazakhstan (2:1), and Robson Conceição, Brazil ( 3-0).

Others

Alvares is 1,65 m tall, left-handed and fights for Pinar del Río.

Source

• Http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/

• Cuban
• Boxer ( Cuba)
• Olympian (Cuba)
• World Champion (boxes)
• Born in 1991
• Man