Diógenes Luna

Cuban boxer (born 1977)

Diógenes Luna
Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Representing Cuba
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	Light Welterweight
World Amateur Championships
	2001 Belfast	Light Welterweight
Pan American Games
	1999 Winnipeg	Light Welterweight
Central American and Caribbean Games
	1998 Maracaibo	Welterweight

Diógenes Luna Martínez (born May 1, 1977) is a boxer from Cuba, who won the bronze medal in the light welterweight division (– 63.5 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In the semifinals he was defeated by eventual runner-up Ricardo Williams from the United States. A year later he won the world title at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Results

1998 Central American and Caribbean Games

1st round bye
Defeated Kevin Placide (Trinidad) RSC-3
Defeated Julio Jean (Haiti) RSC-1
Defeated José Luis Zertuche (Mexico) +26:26

1999 Pan American Games

1st round bye
Defeated Gibeon Gonzalez (Virgin Islands) RSC-1
Lost to Victor Hugo Castro (Argentina) 3:6

2000 Olympic Games

1st round bye
Defeated Willy Blain (France) 25:14
Defeated Saleh Abdelbary Maksoud (Egypt) RSC-2
Lost to Ricardo Williams, Jr. (United States) 41:42

References

Cuba en Juegos Olímpicos (1896-2004): Medallistas en los Juegos. Granma official website. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
databaseOlympics.com
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Diógenes Luna". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.