Dominican boxer Rodrigo Marte de la Rosa defeated the match favorite, former Cuban world champion Yosvany Veitía in the 52 kg event. The judges gave him a 4-1 decision and he thus won the country’s fourth gold medal in the Lima Pan American Games. His teammates Leonel de los Santos and Rohan Polanco won silver. Other DR gold medalists are Beatriz Pirón in weightlifting, Roberto Pigozzi in water skiing, Audrys Nin Reyes in gymnastics.
The only other Dominican boxers to win gold in the Pan Am Games are Joan Guzmán in 1995 and Juan Ubaldo Cabrera in 2003.
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El Caribe
Listin Diario
Lima Pan Am Games
5 August 2019