Miguel Jiménez (boxer)
Appearance
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Full name | Miguel Ángel Jiménez Cedres | ||||||||
Nickname | The Russian | ||||||||
Nationality | Puerto Rico | ||||||||
Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | June 18, 1970||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||
Weight | 168 | ||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||
Weight class | Light-Middleweight | ||||||||
Club | Arecibo Boxing club | ||||||||
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Miguel Ángel Jiménez Cedres (born June 18, 1970) is a retired male boxer from Puerto Rico.
He won the silver medal in the men's light-middleweight (– 71 kg) category at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. In the final, Jiménez was defeated by Cuba's Juan Carlos Lemus. He also represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, falling in the first round to Iraqi Furas Hashim.
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- Light-middleweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1991 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Puerto Rico
- Boxers from Philadelphia
- Puerto Rican male boxers
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico
- Pan American Games medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Puerto Rican people
- Puerto Rican boxing biography stubs