Idel Torriente Leal (born September 9, 1986) is a

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amateur boxer who won the Pan American

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title 2007 and qualified for the Olympics.

Career

In 2006 the southpaw beat teenage star

Roniel Iglesias Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo (born 14 August 1988) is a Cuban boxer, best known for winning the junior world title at lightweight in 2006, a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and a gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He ...

in the semis of the bantamweight national championships but lost the final to superstar

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4:13. He went up to featherweight and won the national title vs Ivan Oñate 21:18. At the 2007 Pan American Games he beat Argentinian Jesús Cuéllar, Jamaican Nicholas Walters, Orlando Rizo and Abner Cotto (PR) in the final 7:5. He lost his national title 2008 to archrival Iván Oñate but was sent to the qualifier where he qualified for the Olympics by beating Robson Conceiçao and

Luis Enrique Porozo Luis Enrique Porozo Mina (born June 30, 1990) is an Ecuadorian professional boxer. As an amateur he qualified in the men's featherweight division for the 2008 Summer Olympics as a seventeen-year-old. Porozo, from Pichincha, came in second at hi ...

. In Beijing he beat Prince Octopus Dzanie 11:2, Enkhzorig Zorigtbaatar 10:9 but lost to

Shahin Imranov Shahin Imranov () (born 23 September 1980) is a boxer from Azerbaijan. He is best known for winning two featherweight silver medals at European championships. Career Imranov won a silver medal at the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships. ...

16:18 and didn't medal. In 2009 he went up to lightweight but lost the national final to Lorenzo Sotamayor. He was sent regardless to the

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where he beat two unknowns then ran into favorite

Domenico Valentino Domenico Valentino (born 17 May 1984 in Marcianise) is a boxer from Italy. The hard punching Valentino won a bronze medal at lightweight at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia. He participated in the 2004 Summer Ol ...

and lost 5:10.

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National title 2007

Living people 1986 births Boxers from Havana Featherweight boxers Boxers at the 2007 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Cuba Cuban male boxers Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games gold medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games 21st-century Cuban sportsmen {{Cuba-boxing-bio-stub