Alfredo Cornejo (boxer) explained

Alfredo Cornejo
Fullname:	Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas
Birth Date:	June 6, 1933
Birth Place:	Santiago de Chile, Chile
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Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas (June 6, 1933  - August 15, 2021) was a Chilean boxer, who won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago, United States.^[1] In the same year he also won the world amateur welterweight title in Mexico City. He later fought four professional fights from 1961 to 1962.^{[2] [3]} As an amateur, he was three times South American Champion; as a light welterweight in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1956, and in Santiago, Chile, 1957, and as a welterweight, in Lima, Peru, 1958.^[4] He also competed in the men's welterweight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: HickokSports.com - History - Pan American Games Boxing Medalists - Men . 2007-01-16 . dead . https://archive.today/20130126044812/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panamboxing.shtml . 2013-01-26 .
2. Web site: Jimmy Robertson - Boxer . www.boxrec.com . 26 January 2022 . https://archive.today/20130628200707/http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=212660 . 28 June 2013 . dead.
3. Web site: USA Boxing . Features, Events, Results | Team USA . USA Boxing . 2016-08-14 . 2016-09-16.
4. Web site: Alfredo Cornejo . BoxRec . 2013-07-13 . 2016-09-16.
5. Alfredo Cornejo Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418100941/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/alfredo-cornejo-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 29 November 2018.