Alfredo Cornejo
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Cornejo and the second or maternal family name is Cuevas.
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Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas (born June 6, 1933 in Santiago de Chile) is a former Chilean boxer, who won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States.[1] 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.[2][3] 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.[4]
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-12-09. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ↑
- ↑ 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.
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