Jorge Gutiérrez Espinosa (born 18 September 1975, in

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) is a former

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from

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. He won the Middleweight Gold medal at the

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. Gutiérrez's Olympic results were: *Defeated Somchai Chimlum (Thailand) 20–11 *Defeated Antonios Giannoulas (Greece) 20–7 *Defeated Adrian Diaconu (Romania) KO 1 *Defeated Vugar Alekperov (Azerbaijan) 19–9 *Defeated Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov (Russia) 17–15 He was technically too old to compete in the 1994 World Junior Championship. He was 19 years old, born in 1975 (the limit was 1976). He competed anyway and won the gold medal.

Amateur highlights

* 1994 World Junior champion at 71 kg * 1998 World cup champion at 75 kg * 1999 Pan American Games champion at 71 kg * 1999 World Championship Silver medalist, losing by WO to Marian Simion (ROM)

References

* 1975 births Boxers at the 1999 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Cuba Olympic gold medalists for Cuba Living people Martial artists from Camagüey Olympic medalists in boxing Cuban male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games gold medalists in boxing Middleweight boxers Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games 20th-century Cuban sportsmen {{Cuba-boxing-bio-stub