Yampier Hernández

Yampier Hernández Gonzales ( born August 30, 1984 in Havana ) is a Cuban boxer. Hernández was bronze medalist of the 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist of the Pan American Championships in 2009 and Pan-American Champion 2008

Career

By 2007, Hernández had nationally always beaten the highly successful international Yan Barthelemi. Once this was changed into the professional business, Hernández was first used internationally and in 2007 and 2008, Cuban champion in the light flyweight (-48 kg).

Hernández was started in 2007 at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, however, already retired in the quarterfinals against Luis Yáñez USA ( 11:8 ), from. The following year he was in Cuenca Pan-American champion. At the 2nd qualifying tournament for the Americas for the 2008 Olympic Games he could fight his way to the semifinals, where he lost to the Dominican Winston Mendez. In the following battle for third, he was able to prevail against Colombian Oscar Negrete Padilla and thus qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games., Where he was defeated by victories over Scheralij Dostijew, Tajikistan (12:1 ), Georgi Chigayev, Ukraine ( 21:3 ), and Paulo Carvalho, Brazil ( 21:6 ), only in the semifinals of the Mongols Pürewdordschiin Serdamba ( 8:8 ) and fought his way to ensure that the bronze medal.

2009 increased Hernández on the flyweight (-51 kg) and lost in the finals of the Cuban championships against Marcos Forestal. Nevertheless, he competed at the Pan American Championships, where he reached the final, which he lost to Braulio Ávila, Mexico ( 8:7 ). At the world championships in the same year Hernández retired in the quarterfinals against McWilliams Arroyo, Puerto Rico ( 6-2 ), from. In 2010, he retired at the national championships in the preliminary round, and in 2011 he launched Bantamweight ( -56 kg ) and also dropped out early.

Source

• Amateur- boxing.strefa.pl

• Boxer ( Cuba)
• Olympian (Cuba)
• Born in 1984
• Man