Mario Kindelán

Mario César Kindelán Mesa ( born September 10, 1971 in Palma Soriano, Cuba ) is a former Cuban amateur boxer.

Career

Kindelán denied in 1987 his first amateur fight at light flyweight, the weight category up to 48 kg. His first success was a victory in the national school championships, in 1988 he won then bantamweight in the Cuban Junior Championships. The following year he was scheduled to participate in the Junior World Championships, which was denied due to an injury to him, however. The Cuban Championships him in 1989, 1991, 1992, and 1995 managed a third place in 1994 and the second rank. 1999 to 2003 he was five consecutive time national champion.

In 1995, he was tested in preparation for the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata in a positive doping test and was subsequently blocked by the AIBA. He then ended his career, but returned in 1998 back into the ring. Only in this second phase of his career, the bigger successes in.

Kindelán won three times in his career, the amateur world championship at lightweight: 1999 in Houston, in Belfast in 2001 and 2003 in Bangkok.

In addition, he twice secured the gold medal in the Olympic boxing tournament: at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he sat down play in the final on points against Andreas Kotelnik of Ukraine by, at the 2004 Games, he defeated in the final fight Amir Khan.

Other successes

• World Cup: 1998, 2002
• Pan American Games: 1999 and 2003
• Central American and Caribbean Games: 1993, 1998 (Final victory over Miguel Cotto )
• Goodwill Games: 1998, 2001
• Chemistry Cup: 2004

Kindelán won 358 fights in his career at 22 defeats, his last fight was a loss to Amir Khan on May 14, 2005 as part of a country England struggle against Cuba. This was at the same time Khan's last amateur fight before his move into the professional camp.