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Yankiel Rivera Figueroa (born September 10, 1997) is a Puerto Rican flyweight boxer. He is the only boxer in his country who qualified to participate in the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]

Yankiel Rivera
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Nationality	Puerto Rican
Born	Yankiel Rivera Figueroa (1997-09-10) September 10, 1997 (age 25) Toa Alta, Puerto Rico
Medal record Men's amateur boxing Representing  Puerto Rico Pan American Games 2019 Lima Flyweight Central American and Caribbean Games 2018 Barranquilla Flyweight

Boxing career

Rivera won bronze at the Pan American Youth Championships in Quito in 2014.[2] He lost to Leandro Blanc in the quarter-finals of the 2016 continental Olympic qualification in Buenos Aires[3] and competed at the 2017 World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, where he lost to the eventual runner-up Jasurbek Latipov in the preliminary round.[4] At the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla[5] and also at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, he won a bronze medal in the flyweight division.[6]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American-continental Olympic qualification tournament in Buenos Aires planned for May 2021 was canceled and a qualification based on the continental ranking was decided instead, which secured Rivera a starting place as number 3 in the ranking.[7]

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Yankiel Rivera Figueroa (* 10. September 1997 in Toa Alta[1]) ist ein puerto-ricanischer Boxer im Fliegengewicht. Er ist der einzige Boxer seines Landes, der sich zur Teilnahme an den Olympischen Spielen 2020 in Tokio qualifizierte.[2]

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