Ariestides González Ortíz (born January 12, 1961) is a boxer from

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, who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the

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. He shared the podium with

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. Although Juan Evangelista Venegas was the first Puerto Rican to win an olympic medal (boxing, 1948) González was the second to win a medal representing Puerto Rico under the Puerto Rican flag, after

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became the first at the

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.Boxing Hall of Fame

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