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.
Alfredo Cornejo
Personal information
Full name Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas
Born June 6, 1933 (1933-06-06) (age 82)
Santiago de Chile, Chile

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

  1. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panamboxing.shtml
  2. http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=212660
  3. http://www.usaboxing.org/867.htm
  4. http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:212660



This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, March 25, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.