Joahnys Óscar Argilagos Pérez (born 11 January 1997) is a Cuban

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. As an

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, he won a bronze medal at the

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as well as a gold medal at both the

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and 2017 World Championships. Argilagos took up boxing in 2007 at the age of 10. He is fighting at amateur level for the

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, under the auspices of the (amateur) International Boxing Association. He has won the 2013 AIBA Junior World Championships, the 2015 AMBC American Confederation Boxing Championships, and the

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in light flyweight. He also won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games and a bronze at the 2016 Olympics.

Amateur career

Olympic result

Rio 2016 *Round of 16: Defeated

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(Great Britain) 2–1 *Quarter-finals: Defeated Peter Mungai Warui (Kenya) 3–0 *Semi-finals: Defeated by

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(Colombia) 2–1

World Championship results

Doha 2015 *Round of 16: Defeated

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(Spain) 3–0 *Quarter-finals: Defeated Brendan Irvine (Republic of Ireland) 3–0 *Semi-finals: Defeated Dmytro Zamotayev (Ukraine) 3–0 *Final: Defeated Vasilii Egorov (Russia) 3–0 Hamburg 2017 *Second round: Defeated Oscar Collazo (Puerto Rico) 3–2 *Quarter-finals: Defeated Salah Ibrahim (Germany) 5–0 *Semi-finals: Defeated Zhomart Yerzhan (Kazakhstan) 5–0 *Final: Defeated

Hasanboy Dusmatov Hasanboy Marfjon Ugli Dusmatov (born 24 June 1993) is an Uzbek professional boxer. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2013 Summer Universiade as a light flyweight. He is also a three-time Asian Boxing Champion and 2023 World ...

(Uzbekistan) 3–2

Pan American Games result

Toronto 2015 *Quarter-finals: Defeated Kevin Arias (Nicaragua) 2–0 *Semi-finals: Defeated

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(Venezuela) 2–1 *Final: Defeated by

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(Mexico) 3–0

Defection

In March 2018, Argilagos failed to appear at a weigh-in during a tournament in

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. It was thought that Argilagos had defected from Cuba to become professional, following the likes of Luis Ortiz,

Guillermo Rigondeaux Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. Who held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and '' Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 and 2017, and the WBA (Regular) bantamweight title fro ...

and

Yuriorkis Gamboa Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano (born 23 December 1981) is a Cuban professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight title ( Regular version) from 2009 to 2011, and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) featherweight ti ...

who had all previously defected from Cuba and later became professional.

Professional boxing record

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