Joahnys Oscar Argilagos Perez (born 11 January 1997) is a Cuban professional boxer. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics as well as winning a gold medal at both the 2015 and 2017 World Championships.

Argilagos took up boxing in 2007 at the age of 10. He is fighting at amateur level for the World Series of Boxing, under the auspices of the (amateur) International Boxing Association. He has won the 2013 AIBA Junior World Championships, the 2015 AMBC American Confederation Boxing Championships, and the 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships in light flyweight. He also won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games and a bronze at the 2016 Olympics.

Joahnys Argilagos

Amateur career

Olympic result

Rio 2016

Round of 16: Defeated Galal Yafai (Great Britain) 2–1

Quarter-finals: Defeated Peter Mungai Warui (Kenya) 3–0

Semi-finals: Defeated by Yuberjen Martínez (Colombia) 2–1

World Championship results

Doha 2015

Round of 16: Defeated Samuel Carmona (Spain) 3–0

Quarter-finals: Defeated Brendan Irvine (Republic of Ireland) 3–0

Semi-finals: Defeated Dmytro Zamotayev (Ukraine) 3–0

Final: Defeated Vasilii Egorov (Russia) 3–0

Hamburg 2017

Second round: Defeated Oscar Collazo (Puerto Rico) 3–2

Quarter-finals: Defeated Salah Ibrahim (Germany) 5–0

Semi-finals: Defeated Zhomart Yerzhan (Kazakhstan) 5–0

Final: Defeated Hasanboy Dusmatov (Uzbekistan) 3–2

Pan American Games result

Toronto 2015

Quarter-finals: Defeated Kevin Arias (Nicaragua) 2–0

Semi-finals: Defeated Yoel Finol (Venezuela) 2–1

Final: Defeated by Joselito Velázquez (Mexico) 3–0

Defection

In March 2018, Argilagos failed to appear at a weigh-in during a tournament in Tijuana. It was thought that Argilagos had defected from Cuba to become professional, following the likes of Luis Ortiz, Guillermo Rigondeaux and Yuriorkis Gamboa who had all previously defected from Cuba and later became professional.

Joahnys Argilagos

Professional boxing record

References

External links

1997 births

Living people

Cuban male boxers

Olympic boxers for Cuba

Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba

Olympic medalists in boxing

Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Pan American Games medalists in boxing

Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba

Boxers at the 2015 Pan American Games

AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists

World boxing champions

Light-flyweight boxers

Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games

Joahnys Argilagos