Harry Tañamor
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| Full name | Harry Tañamor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Light Flyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harry Tañamor (born August 20, 1977) is an amateur boxer from Zamboanga City, Philippines best known to medal repeatedly on the world stage at light flyweight.
Career
The southpaw is competing in the Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) division, and won bronze medals at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships and 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He competed at the
At the
Tañamor competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, entering in the light flyweight class. He was the only Filipino athlete predicted to win a medal by Sports Illustrated's Olympic Preview issue. However, he was defeated by Manyo Plange of Ghana in the Round of 32, 6 to 3.[1]
At the 2008 Boxing World Cup, Tañamor defeated Yampier Hernández of Cuba in the light flyweight final to win the gold.[2]
References
- ^ FilipinoSphere: Harry Tañamor Lost![permanent dead link]
- ^ "Tañamor bags gold in Moscow World Cup – December 16, 2008". Archived from the original on December 16, 2008. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
External links
- Profile on CBS
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Harry Tañamor". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020.
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