Juan Carlos Lemus Garcia (born May 6, 1966) is a Cuban boxer, who won the gold medal in the men's Light Middleweight (71 kg) category at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Lemus also was awarded the gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games, as well as the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 1991, beating the reigning champion at that time, Israel Akopkochyan.

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Juan Carlos Lemus

Juan Carlos Lemus at the 1989 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Moscow
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Full name	Juan Carlos Lemus García
Nationality	Cuba
Born	(1966-05-06) May 6, 1966 (age 57)
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Light Middleweight
Medal record Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Light Middleweight World Amateur Championships 1991 Sydney Light Middleweight Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis Welterweight 1991 Havana Light Middleweight Central American and Caribbean Games 1993 Ponce Light Middleweight Goodwill Games 1994 Saint Petersburg Light Middleweight

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• Defeated Arkadiy Topayev (Unified Team) 11-0
• Defeated Markus Beyer (Germany) RSCH 1 (0:44)
• Defeated Igors Saplavskis (Latvia) 12-2
• Defeated György Mizsei (Hungary) 10-2
• Defeated Orhan Delibaş (Netherlands) 6-1

Boxan gold medal Pre-olympics Barcelona 1992 and best boxer of the tournament also, with Oscar De La Hoya.

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Juan Carlos Lemus". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
• Biography of Juan Carlos Lemus (in Spanish)

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