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| Full name | Osmay Acosta Méndez Duarte | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | April 3, 1985 Havana, Ciudad de la Habana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Heavyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Osmay Acosta Méndez Duarte (born April 3, 1985) is a Cuban former amateur boxer, who competed between 2001 and 2010, best known to win the 2007 PanAm Games at Heavyweight with 201 lbs (91 kg) limit.
Career
Acosta is a 1,85 m tall fighter, a southpaw, who won the 165 lbs world cadet championships 2001 vs Zaur Teymurov and became the junior world champion at 75 kg/165 lbs in 2002 in Santiago de Cuba beating Russian Nikolai Galacki 10:9, Uzbek Alisher Matniazov KO, and Kazack Dmitriy Gotfrid in the final 14:8.
At senior level he first struggled badly, in 2005 he was disqualified at the nationals at 178 lbs.
At the national senior championships ("Playa Girón") 2006 he was beaten inside the distance by Odlanier Solis in an attempt to compete at super heavyweight so he dropped down to 201 lbs where he won the 2006 Central American Games.
He was part of the Cuban team that won the 2006 Boxing World Cup.[1]
He became national champion at 201 lbs vs. Ismaikel Perez in 2007 and defeated southpaw Adam Willett 22:3 in the PanAm qualifier. He won the 2007 PanAm games stopping local favourite Rafael Lima in the semifinals and easily beating Jose Julio Payares of Venezuela 11:3 (including a knockdown) in the finals.
At the Nations Cup he beat Alexander Povernov 14:8, at the Ahmet Comert Cup 2007[2] he defeated European Champion Denis Poyatsika. He would have been one of the top favorites at the world championships 2007 but Cuba didn't participate.
Acosta was undefeated for more than a year then was upset at the 2008 Strandzha Cup by an unknown Scotsman Stevie Simmons and struggled at the National Championships.
He qualified for Beijing by winning the first Olympic qualifier by beating fellow-qualifier Deontay Wilder in the final. At the Olympics he lost to the eventual Russian winner Chakhkeiv.
At the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships he defeated John M'Bumba but lost the final to fellow southpaw Egor Mekhontsev and won silver.
Highlights
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XLIII Playa Girón (81 kg), Camagüey, Cuba, January 2004
XLIV Playa Girón (81 kg), Pinar del Río, Cuba, January 2005:
China–Cuba Duals (91 kg), Havana, Cuba, May 2006:
I Pan American qualifier (91 kg), Barquisimeto, Venezuela, February 2007:
National match-up (91 kg), Havana, Cuba, March 2007:
National match-up (91 kg), Havana, Cuba, April 2007:
France–Cuba Duals (91 kg), Amiens, France, April 2007:
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Romania–Cuba Duals (91 kg), Bucharest, Romania, May 2007:
Cuban National Team Championships (91 kg), Havana, Cuba, November 2007:
Local match-up (91 kg), Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, January 2008:
LIX Strandzha Cup (91 kg), Plovdiv, Bulgaria, February 2008:
I Olympic Qualifier of the Americas (91 kg), Puerto España, Trinidad and Tobago, March 2008:
Cuba–France Duals (91 kg), Havana, Cuba, June 2008:
Cuban National Team Championships (91 kg), Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, November 2008:
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Cuban National Team Championships (91 kg), Camagüey, Cuba, November 2009:
Kazakhstan–Cuba Duals (91 kg), Astana, Kazakhstan, December 2009:
LIV Bocskai Memorial (91 kg), Debrecen, Hungary, February 2010:
Cuba–Ecuador Duals (91 kg), Havana, Cuba, March 2010:
Cuban National Team Championships (91 kg), Pinar del Rio, Cuba, November 2010:
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References
External links
- Osmay Acosta Amateur Career (in Spanish) compiled by Pedro Cabrera Isidrón of the Cuban Olympics Committee. Last updated: August 29, 2008.
- 2001 cadet results
- 2002 junior results
- sports-reference
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