Yosvany Veitía


Yosvany Veitía Soto is a Cuban amateur boxer in the light flyweight division who competed at the 2012 Olympics. He is a southpaw.

Career

At the 2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships he won Bronze.
At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat Birzhan Zhakypov and two unknowns but was stopped by Mongolian defending champion Pürevdorjiin Serdamba.
At the 2011 Pan American Games he lost the final to local Joselito Velazquez.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics he beat Australian Billy Ward 26:4, then lost to eventual winner Zou Shiming 10:13.
He also holds two notable wins over Naoya Inoue, the world's second best active boxer, pound for pound.