Héctor Velásquez
- August 18, 2010
- 58 years
- stroke
About Héctor Velásquez
Héctor Velásquez, 58, Chilean Olympic boxer, stroke.
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|Héctor "Joto" Velásquez Vergara (9 February 1952 – 18 August 2010) was a boxer from Chile. He represented his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
Velásquez won the silver medal in the Men's Light-Flyweight division (– 47 kg) at the 1971 Pan American Games, where the weight division was included for the first time. In the final, he was defeated by Cuba's Rafael Carbonell.
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