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| Full name | Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas | ||||||||||||||
| Born | June 6, 1933 Santiago de Chile, Chile | ||||||||||||||
| Died | August 15, 2021 (aged 88) [1] | ||||||||||||||
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Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas (June 6, 1933 – August 15, 2021) was a Chilean boxer, who won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States. [2] In the same year he also won the world amateur welterweight title in Mexico City. He later fought four professional fights from 1961 to 1962. [3] [4] As an amateur, he was three times South American Champion; as a light welterweight in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1956, and in Santiago, Chile, 1957, and as a welterweight, in Lima, Peru, 1958. [5] He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. [6]
References
- ^ Alfredo Cornejo at Olympedia
- ^ "HickokSports.com - History - Pan American Games Boxing Medalists - Men". Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ "Jimmy Robertson - Boxer". www.boxrec.com. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- ^ USA Boxing (2016-08-14). "Features, Events, Results | Team USA". USA Boxing. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
- ^ "Alfredo Cornejo". BoxRec. 2013-07-13. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alfredo Cornejo Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
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| Full name | Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas | ||||||||||||||
| Born | June 6, 1933 Santiago de Chile, Chile | ||||||||||||||
| Died | August 15, 2021 (aged 88) [1] | ||||||||||||||
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Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas (June 6, 1933 – August 15, 2021) was a Chilean boxer, who won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States. [2] In the same year he also won the world amateur welterweight title in Mexico City. He later fought four professional fights from 1961 to 1962. [3] [4] As an amateur, he was three times South American Champion; as a light welterweight in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1956, and in Santiago, Chile, 1957, and as a welterweight, in Lima, Peru, 1958. [5] He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. [6]
References
- ^ Alfredo Cornejo at Olympedia
- ^ "HickokSports.com - History - Pan American Games Boxing Medalists - Men". Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ "Jimmy Robertson - Boxer". www.boxrec.com. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- ^ USA Boxing (2016-08-14). "Features, Events, Results | Team USA". USA Boxing. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
- ^ "Alfredo Cornejo". BoxRec. 2013-07-13. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alfredo Cornejo Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
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- 1933 births
- 2021 deaths
- Welterweight boxers
- Sportspeople from Santiago
- Chilean male boxers
- Boxers at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Chile
- Pan American Games medalists in boxing
- Olympic boxers for Chile
- Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Chilean people
- 21st-century Chilean people
- South American boxing biography stubs
- Chilean martial arts biography stubs