Yagnier Hernández (born May 14, 1983 in

Camagüey Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 333,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by Sp ...

) is an amateur Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's featherweight category. He won a gold medal for his division at the

2007 Pan American Games The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games () and commonly known as Rio 2007, were a major Americas, continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to 29, 2007. A total of ...

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, defeating Venezuela's Jorge Cardozo. Hernandez represented

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at the

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, where he competed for the men's 55 kg class. He first defeated North Korea's Cha Kwang-Su in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Azerbaijan's Rovshan Bayramov, with a three-set technical score (0–5, 2–1, 0–4), and a classification point score of 1–3. Because his opponent advanced further into the final match, Hernandez offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Egypt's Mostafa Mohamed in the repechage rounds. He progressed to the bronze medal match, but narrowly lost the medal to Armenia's Roman Amoyan, with a technical score of 0–8.

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Profile – International Wrestling Database
1983 births Wrestlers at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers for Cuba Martial artists from Camagüey Living people Cuban male sport wrestlers Pan American Games gold medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games 20th-century Cuban people 21st-century Cuban sportsmen {{Cuba-wrestling-bio-stub