Yosvany Veitía

Cuban boxer (born 1992)

Yosvany Veitía

Personal information

Full name

Yosvany Veitía Soto

Born

(1992-03-12) 12 March 1992 (age 32)
Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba

Sport

Country

Cuba

Sport

Boxing

Event

Light flyweight

Coached by

Rolando Acebal

Medal record

Men's amateur boxing

Representing Cuba
World Amateur Championships
	2017 Hamburg	Flyweight
	2015 Doha	Flyweight
	2013 Almaty	Light flyweight
	2023 Tashkent	Bantamweight
Pan American Games
	2011 Guadalajara	Light flyweight
	2015 Toronto	Flyweight
	2019 Lima	Flyweight
Pan American Championship
	2017 Tegucigalpa [fr]	Flyweight
Central American and Caribbean Games
	2014 Veracruz	Flyweight
Youth World Championships
	2010 Baku	Light flyweight

Yosvany Veitía Soto (also spelled Yosbany, born 12 March 1992) is a Cuban amateur boxer in the light flyweight division who competed at the 2012 Olympics.^[1] He is a southpaw.^{[citation needed]}

Career

At the 2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships he won a bronze medal.

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships (results) he beat Birzhan Zhakypov and two unknowns but was stopped by Mongolian defending champion Pürevdorjiin Serdamba. At the 2011 Pan American Games (results) he lost the final to local Joselito Velázquez.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics (results) he beat Australian Billy Ward 26:4, then lost to eventual winner Zou Shiming 10:13.

He also holds two notable wins over Naoya Inoue, ranked as the world's second best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring, the Boxing Writer's Association of America,^[2] The Transnational Boxing Ranking Board, ESPN, and fourth overall by BoxRec.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[7]

References

^ "Yosvany Veitía, segundo boxeador cubano eliminado en boxeo olímpico". Cubaencuentro.com (in Spanish). 4 August 2012.
^ "Boxing pound-for-pound rankings: Terence Crawford or Naoya Inoue? And what about Errol Spence Jr.?". ESPN.com. ESPN. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Ratings-The Ring". The Ring. The Ring. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Terence Crawford Is The BWAA's New No. 1 Pound-For-Pound King". Boxing Writer's Association of America. Boxing Writer's Association of America. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Transnational Boxing Rankings Board P4P Rankings". The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "BoxRec Male Pound for Pound Rankings". BoxRec. BoxRec. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^ "Boxing VEITIA Yosbany". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.