Juan Carlos Lemus Garcia (born May 6, 1965) is a Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

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Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

, who won the gold medal in the men's Light Middleweight (71 kg) category at the 1992 Summer Olympics

1992 Summer Olympics

The 1992 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1992. The International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games, which had been held in the same...

 in Barcelona

Barcelona

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Lemus also was awarded the gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games

Boxing at the 1987 Pan American Games

The Men's Boxing Tournament at the 1987 Pan American Games was held in the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, United States from August 8 to August 23.- Medal winners :-Medal table:-External links:*...

, as well as the World Amateur Boxing Championships in 1991, beating the reigning champion at that time, Israel Akopkochyan.

Recently he resides in Canary Islands.

Olympic results

• Defeated Arkadiy Topayev (Unified Team)
• Defeated Markus Beyer
  Markus Beyer
  Height 176 cmMarkus Beyer is a German boxer at super middleweight and the former WBC Champion, who resides in Lilienthal, Germany. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the light middleweight division...
  
   (Germany) RSCH 1 (0:44)
• Defeated Igors Saplavskis (Latvia) 12-2
• Defeated György Mizsei
  György Mizsei
  György Mizsei was a Hungarian boxer, who won a bronze medal in the light middleweight division at the 1992 Summer Olympics....
  
   (Hungary) 10-2
• Defeated Orhan Delibaş
  Orhan Delibas
  Orhan Delibaş is a retired Dutch boxer. He won the Light Middleweight Silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics...
  
   (Netherlands) 6-1

Boxan gold medal Pre-olympics Barcelona 1992 and best boxer of the tournament also, with Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar de la Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...

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