Yan Bartelemí

Yan BARTHELEMI Varela ( born March 5, 1980 in Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba ) is a Cuban boxer.

Amateur

As an amateur boxed southpaw BARTHELEMI in the light flyweight. In 1998, he was Olympic champion Maikro Romero beat, but lost him in 1999 and 2000 in other encounters. His compatriot Andry Laffita, another southpaw and vice world champion at flyweight in 2005, he hit in each of its nine meetings.

In 2001 he won the World Championship in Belfast in this weight class. 2001 and 2002, he struck out three times Yuriorkis Gamboa, who later became Olympic champion in the flyweight in 2004. During the 2003 World Cup in Bangkok, he retired in the first round against the Chinese Zhou Shiming ( 15:22 ). For more tournament successes he succeeded in 2003 with the victory at the Pan American Games and the chemistry Cup.

His greatest success came with him winning the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Here the Turks Atagün Yalçınkaya defeated, among others, in the semifinals his rival Zhou Shiming and in the final each on points. At the 2005 World Championships in Mianyang he failed in the quarterfinals just with 10:12 points to the local heroes Zhou Shiming.

Professional career

The end of 2006 BARTHELEMI sat down with two other Cuban Olympic medalists from 2004, Odlanier Solis and Yuriorkis Gamboa, at a training camp in Venezuela in preparation for the Pan American Games of the Cuban team from and Box-Promotion has been the Hamburg boxing stable Arena taken under contract. His first professional fight took place in Hamburg in April 2007. A few months later BARTHELEMI shifted his center of life in the United States. He lives and trains since in Miami, where there is a large Cuban exile community. However, it did not always convincing in his struggles even against construction opponent and lost as on 1 August 2008 surprisingly against the unknown Ernie Marquez over six rounds on points. BARTHELEMI was deducted a point for holding in the final round; without this point loss of the battle would have ended in a draw. His next two fights he could win again. On 10 October 2009, he then lost his second fight, surprisingly. This time he fought against the still undefeated American Jorge Diaz. After a fairly balanced fight he was hit in the sixth round of a heavy left hook and went straight knockout.

2010 and 2011 suggested BARTHELEMI Felix Flores, Roberto Benitez, LeShaun Blair and Francis Ruiz. Thus he fought his way to another title shot, but lost on points against the undefeated Sahib Usarov in the fight for the WBO Intercontinental title.

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