Yosvany Veitía

Yosvany Veitía Soto (also spelled Yosbany, born 12 March 1992) is a Cuban amateur boxer in the light flyweight division who competed at the 2012 Olympics.^[1] He is a southpaw.^{[citation needed]}

Yosvany Veitía

Personal information
Full name	Yosvany Veitía Soto
Born	(1992-03-12) 12 March 1992 (age 32) Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba
Sport
Country	Cuba
Sport	Boxing
Event	Light flyweight
Coached by	Rolando Acebal
Medal record Men's amateur boxing Representing  Cuba World Amateur Championships 2017 Hamburg Flyweight 2015 Doha Flyweight 2013 Almaty Light flyweight 2023 Tashkent Bantamweight Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara Light flyweight 2015 Toronto Flyweight 2019 Lima Flyweight Pan American Championship 2017 Tegucigalpa [fr] Flyweight Central American and Caribbean Games 2014 Veracruz Flyweight Youth World Championships 2010 Baku Light flyweight

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Veitía and the second or maternal family name is Soto.

Career

At the 2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships he won a bronze medal.

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat Birzhan Zhakypov and two unknowns but was stopped by Mongolian defending champion Pürevdorjiin Serdamba. At the 2011 Pan American Games he lost the final to local Joselito Velázquez.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he beat Australian Billy Ward 26:4, then lost to eventual winner Zou Shiming 10:13.

He also holds two notable wins over Naoya Inoue, ranked as the world's best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring, the Boxing Writer's Association of America,^[2] The Transnational Boxing Ranking Board, ESPN, and fourth overall by BoxRec.^[3][4][5][6]

He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[7]

References

1. "Yosvany Veitía, segundo boxeador cubano eliminado en boxeo olímpico". Cubaencuentro.com (in Spanish). 4 August 2012.
2. "Boxing pound-for-pound rankings: Terence Crawford or Naoya Inoue? And what about Errol Spence Jr.?". ESPN.com. ESPN. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
3. "Ratings-The Ring". The Ring. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
4. "Terence Crawford Is The BWAA's New No. 1 Pound-For-Pound King". Boxing Writer's Association of America. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
5. "Transnational Boxing Rankings Board P4P Rankings". The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
6. "BoxRec Male Pound for Pound Rankings". BoxRec. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
7. "Boxing VEITIA Yosbany". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

External links

• Yosvany Veitía at Olympics.com
• Yosvany Veitía at Olympedia