Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz
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Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (Born: September 30, 1980 in La Prueba, Cuba) is a Cuban boxer, who captured the Olympic gold medal at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, in the Bantamweight (54 kg) class. Rigondeaux is a seven-time (2000-06) Cuban national champion at bantamweight. He currently claims an amateur record of 243-4; with his losses coming to Rencise Perez and Beksat Sattarkhanov in 1998, Waldemar Font in 1999, and his most recent loss against Agasi Mamedov in 2003.
Olympic results
2000
- Defeated Moez Zemzemi (Tunisia) KO 1
- Defeated Kazumasa Tsujimoto (Japan) RSC 3
- Defeated Agasi Agaguloglu (Turkey) 14-5
- Defeated Clarence Vinson (United States) 18-6
- Defeated Raimkul Malakhbekov (Russia) 18-12
2004
- Round of 32: Defeated Liu Yuan of China - PTS (21-7)
- Round of 16: Defeated Mehar Ullah of Pakistan - RSC 3
- Quarterfinals: Defeated Gennady Kovalev of Russia - PTS (20-5)
- Semifinals: Defeated Bahodirjon Sooltonov of Uzbekistan - PTS (27-13)
- Gold Medal Match: Defeated Worapoj Petchkoom of Thailand - PTS (22-13)
Other amateur achievements
- 2000 Cuban national amateur champion - bantamweight
- 2001 Cuban national amateur champion - bantamweight
- 2001 World amateur champion - bantamweight (in Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Defeated Kazumasa Tsujimoto (Japan) RSC 2
- Defeated Reidar Walstad (Norway) RSC 2
- Defeated Artur Mikaelian (Greece) 24-8
- Defeated Sergey Danilchenko (Ukraine) 15-6
- Defeated Agasi Mamedov (Russia) 30-24
- 2002 Cuban national amateur champion - bantamweight
- 2002 World Cup champion - bantamweight (in Astana, Kazakhstan)
- Defeated Justin Kane (Australia) RSC 1
- Defeated Keren Gurgen (Turkey) RSC 1
- Defeated Chotipat Wongprates (Thailand) 13-2
- Defeated Toljen Kanatov (Kazkhstan) 7-6
- 2003 Cuban national amateur champion - bantamweight
- 2003 competed as a bantamweight at World championships in Bangkok, Thailand. Results were:
- Defeated Andrzej Liczik (Poland) 15-1
- Lost to Agasi Mamedov (Russia) 13-16
- 2003 Bantamweight gold medalist at Pan-American games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Defeated Argenis Mendez Zapata (Dominican Republic) 17-2
- Defeated Alexander Espinoza (Venezuela) RSC 2
- Defeated Andrew Kooner (Canada) 22-2
- Defeated Abner Mares (Mexico) 17-7
- 2004 Cuban national amateur champion - bantamweight
- 2005 Cuban national amateur champion - bantamweight
- 2005 Bantamweight gold medalist at World Cup in Moscow Russia.
- Defeated Worapoj Petchkoom (Thailand) 34-16
- Defeated Zsolt Bedak (Romania) 28-11
- Defeated Murat Aiyrmasov (Kazakhstan) 34-7
- Defeated Maksim Khalikov (Russia) 37-21
- 2005 World amateur champion at bantamweight in competition held in Mianyang, China
- Defeated Vladislav Sokolov (Latvia) RTD 2
- Defeated Ougonchulun Batkhuu (Mongolia) RSC
- Defeated Bahodirjon Sultanov (Uzbekistan) RSC 3
- Defeated Ali Hallab (France) 37-23
- Defeated Rustamhodza Rachimov (Germany) 19-9
- 2006 Cuban national amateur champion
- 2006 Bantamweight gold medalist at Central American Games in Cartagena, Colombia
- Defeated Juan Velasquez (Puerto Rico) 10-1
- Defeated Jhonatan Romero (Colombia) walk-over
- Defeated José Santos (Mexico) 14-3
- 2006 Bantamweight gold medalist at Nations Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.
- Defeated Mirzhan Rakhimzhanov (Kazakhstan) 28-10
- Defeated Rau'shee Warren (United States) 21-17
- Defeated Elshad Guliyev (Azerbaijan) walk-over
- Defeated Ali Aliyev (Russia) RSC 3
