Oscar Rivas
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| Silver | Rio 2007 | Super Heavyweight | |
Óscar Rivas Torres (b. 1987 or 1988) is a Colombian amateur boxer from Valle del Cauca best known to win the Super Heavyweight Silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games at the age of 19.
[edit] Career
In Cartagena at the Caribbean Games 2006 he lost in the first round to Cuban Olympic Bronze medalist Michel López Núñez 4:6 [1]
February 4, 2007 Rivas scored his biggest win so far by beating two-time American champ Mike Wilson 24:19 in a qualifier in Venezuela but lost to Cuban Robert Alfonso 12:21.
In the main event in Rio he beat Gerardo Bisbal 22:8, Didier Bence by walkover (injured) and reached the final but lost to Alfonso once again, this time 4:8.
In Chicago at the World Championships he stopped Dominican Lequan Carlisle but lost to eventual silver medalist Vyacheslav Glazkov 7:23.
At the first Olympic qualifier in March 2008 he lost to American Michael Hunter jr.; however, in April 2008 he qualified for the 2008 Olympics through the second American qualifier with a 6:5 victory. [1]
