SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Once a sports superpower, Cuba now celebrates every gold medal at the Pan American Games.
Heavyweight Julio César La Cruz beat Brazil's Keno Machado 4-1 in the final and became the first ever athlete of the sport to win a fourth Pan American gold medal.
Dominican Yunior Alcántara reduced the deficit in the Caribbean bout with a gold medal that didn't make him sweat in the final.
Cuba is the country with most medals for boxing in the history of the Pan American Games.
But that position in Santiago was passed on to Brazil, with four gold medal winners.
Persons:
Julio César La Cruz, Brazil's Keno Machado, Arlen López, Wanderley de Souza Pereira, “, La Cruz, ” La Cruz, ”, Saidel Horta, Jahmal Harvey, Alcántara, didn't, Michael Douglas Trindade, ___
Organizations:
Pan American, Pan, Cuban, Paris Olympics
Locations:
SANTIAGO, Chile, Cuba, Communist, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Paris, Barranquilla, Colombian, Cuban, Santiago, Brazil