Óscar Valdez

Óscar Valdez ( born December 22, 1990 in Nogales ) is a Mexican boxer. Valdez took in 2008 at the age of 17 years at the Beijing Olympics in the bantamweight part, was second in the American championships in 2009 and 2010 in featherweight and bantamweight in 2011 and bronze medalist of the 2009 world championships at featherweight. He was the first Mexican who was able to win a medal at the world championships. Valdez starts for Mexico City in the World Series of Boxing.

Career

Valdez won the age of 16 in 2007, surprisingly, the Mexican bantamweight championships, including a semi-final victory over the champion of America Championships in 2007, Carlos Cuadras. The following year he took, now as an established Mexican # 1 Bantamweight ( 57kg - ), the American Olympic Qualification Tournament in Port of Spain in part, and won with a Habfinalsieg about James Dean Pereira from Brazil ( 14:12) the Olympic qualification. In the final he lost to Yankiel León ( Cuba) with 5:14.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing Valdez lost in the first fight against the eventual Olympic champion Enchbatyn Badar - Uugan (Mongolia) with 4:15 .. In order for the competition year 2008 for Valdez was not yet finished: At the Junior World Championships ( U19) he convincingly won the gold medal in the featherweight ( 57kg - ).

In 2009, Valdez for the first time at the American Championships and was able after beating Cesar Villarraga from Colombia ( 6:4 ) and Jorge Maisonet from Puerto Rico ( 8:3 ) and a final defeat by Brazil's Robson Conceicao ( 5:6 ) win the silver medal. At the world championships in the same year Valdez won with victories over Clive Atwell from Guyana ( 14:3 ), David Oliver Joyce from Ireland ( 16:11), Ju Jae Min from South Korea ( 9:6 ) and Azat Hovhanesyan from Armenia (14: 9), and a semi-final defeat against Vasyl Lomatschenko from Ukraine ( 1:12 ) the bronze medal.

The following year, Valdez won two international events in Caguas and San Juan before he again reached the final at the U.S. Championships and this time to Roberto Navarro (Dominican Republic) ( 8:9 ) failed. He also won this year's Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez.

From 2011 started Valdez, due to a Refornm the weight classes of the AIBA, again Bantamweight ( - 56kg ) and won the silver medal at the U.S. Championships, where he Brazilian Robenilson de Jesus defeated in the semifinals by 23:10 and in the final against Lázaro Álvarez Cuba lost with 15:19. At the world championships in the same year Valdez lost out in the second round against Joseph Diaz from the USA ( 21:22 ). He missed direct qualification for the Olympic Games 2012 in London and therefore took on the 2012 U.S. Olympic qualifying tournament in Rio de Janeiro in part. This tournament he won with victories over Jose Diaz of Venezuela ( 18:8 ), Oscar Negrete from Colombia ( 15:9 ), Julio Cortez from Ecuador, Robenilson de Jesus of Brazil ( 9:8 ) and Alberto Melian of Argentina ( 29: 11) and thus qualified for the Olympic Games.

Others

Valdez is left-handed and 1.65 m tall.

  • Boxer ( Mexico)
  • Olympian (Mexico)
  • Mexican
  • Born in 1990
  • Man
Nogales (Sonora) 2009 AIBA World Boxing Championships Caguas, Puerto Rico Robenílson Vieira 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships
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