Angel Espinosa
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Competitor for  Cuba |
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| Men’s Boxing | |||
| World Amateur Championships | |||
| Gold | Reno 1986 | Junior middleweight | |
| Silver | 1989 | Middleweight | |
| Pan American Games | |||
| Gold | Indianapolis 1987 | Middleweight | |
Ángel Espinosa Capó (b 1966) is a former Cuban amateur boxer best known to dominate the 80s at junior middleweight and middleweight and capturing the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He never won Olympic Gold due to Cuba's boycott of the 1984 and 1988 games.
[edit] Career
In 1983 the hard-hitting southpaw won the junior world championships at junior welterweight by knocking out Meldrick Taylor in round 2.
Cuba boycotted the 1984 Olympic games.
He became 1986 world champion at junior middleweight.
He added the Panamerican title 1987 at middleweight.
Cuba boycotted the 1988 Olympics, too, Henry Maske whom Espinosa had defeated three times won Gold.
At the 1989 world championships he bested Sven Ottke but officially lost to local hero Andrei Kurniawka.
At his first Olympics in Barcelona 1992 he was washed-up, competed at light-heavy and lost to Wojciech Bartnik .
