 González (in red) at the 1984 Olympics. | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ariestides González Ortíz | ||||||||||||||
| Born | January 12, 1961 (age 63) Añasco, Puerto Rico | ||||||||||||||
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Ariestides González Ortíz (born January 12, 1961) is a boxer from Puerto Rico, who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He shared the podium with Algeria's Mohamed Zaoui. Although Juan Evangelista Venegas was the first Puerto Rican to win an olympic medal (boxing, 1948) González was the second to win a medal representing Puerto Rico under the Puerto Rican flag, after Orlando Maldonado became the first at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[1]
References
- ↑ Boxing Hall of Fame Archived April 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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