Manuel Mantilla (born September 25, 1973) is an

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from

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, who represented his native country in the Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg) category at the

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. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals by Thailand's eventual gold medalist

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. Mantilla won several medals in the same weight division on the continental level in the 1990s.

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