Héctor Vinent

Name: Hector Vinent
Birth Name: Héctor Vinent Cháron
Hometown: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Birthplace: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Amateur Boxer: Record

• Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996)
• Two-time World Champion (Tampere 1993, Berlin 1995)
• World Junior Champion (Lima 1990)
• Six time Cuban National Champion (1992-1998)

• Defeated future professional World Champions Shane Mosley, Stevie Johnston, Fernando Vargas, David Diaz, Daniel Santos and Diosbelys Hurtado.

• Defeated fellow Olympic Gold Medalists Andreas Zulow, Oleg Saitov, Yermakhan Ibrayimov and Hocine Soltani.

Olympic Results

• 1992 Light Welterweight Gold Medalist
  • Defeated Edwin Cassiani (Colombia) 27-4
  • Defeated Andreas Zulow (Germany) 14-2
  • Defeated Oleg Nikolaev (Unified Team/Russia) 26-3
  • Defeated Jyri Kjall (Finland) 13-3
  • Defeated Mark Leduc (Canada) 11-1

• 1996 Light Welterewight Gold Medalist
  • Defeated Hyung-Min Han (South Korea) RSC 2 (1:00)
  • Defeated Nurhan Suleymanoglu (Turkey) 23-1
  • Defeated Edward Zakharov (Russia) 15-7
  • Defeated Bolat Niyazymbetov (Kazkhstan) 23-6
  • Defeated Oktay Urkal (Germany) 20-13

World Championship Results

1993 (as a Light Welterweight)

• Defeated Zeljko Rastovic (Croatia) RSC 3
• Defeated Nurhan Suleymanoglu (Turkey) RSC 2
• Defeated Nordine Mouchi (France) 19-2
• Defeated Oktay Urkal (Germany) 12-7
• Defeated Jyri Kjall (Finland) 7-1

1995 (as a Light Welterweight)

• Defeated Abdellah Benbiar (Morocco) KO 3
• Defeated Jacek Bielski (Poland) 6-1
• Defeated Sergey Bykovskiy (Belarus) 7-1
• Defeated Radoslav Suslekov (Bulgaria) RSC 2
• Defeated Nurhan Suleymanoglu (Turkey) 7-4

External Links

• Amateur Record