Juan Bautista Hernández Pérez

He is not to be confused with fellow Cuban boxer, world champion and Olympic silver medalist Juan Hernández Sierra
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Hernández and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.
Juan Hernández
Personal information
Full name Juan Bautista Hernández Pérez
Born December 24, 1962 (1962-12-24) (age 53)
Pilón, Granma, Cuba

Juan Bautista Hernández Pérez (born December 24, 1962) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who won the gold medal in the Bantamweight division (-54 kg) at age seventeen at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he defeated Venezuela's Bernardo Piñango on points (5-0).

Olympic results


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