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At the age of 19, Hector Vinent was chosen to compete in the 1992 Barcelona
Olympics where he had gone on to win the Gold. It was his first adult championship, prior he had fought in the youth championships. At the age of 23 he went on to win another Gold medal the 1996 Olympics as well as retaining
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Hector was forced to retire at a young age to an injury to his left eye. He had been examined by the doctors and was unable to continue as he had retinal detachment damage and continuing would eventually make him blind for life. His aim was to break fellow Cubans
Teofilo Stevenson and Felix Savon's
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Hector Vinent holds notable victories over future professional World
Champions Shane Mosley, Stevie Johnston, Fernando Vargas, David Diaz, Daniel Santos and Diosbelys Hurtado. Defeated fellow Olympic Gold Medalists Andreas Zulow, Oleg Saitov, Yermakhan Ibrayimov, Hocine Soltani and Diegenes Luna.
462:“Vinent, who equaled Kulej's feat of two consecutive golds at junior welterweight, certainly had the youth and talent to shoot for a third gold in Sydney—and maybe an unprecedented fourth in Athens—but for reasons unknown to this writer he didn't.”
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In 2012, RingTV posted an article on the 10 Top
Olympic Fighters of all time. In the article, writer Lee Groves placed Cuba's Hector Vinent as number five and his section on Vinent featured the following line:
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In 2015 he began training aspiring international fighters in conjunction with Xtreme Gap Year. Hector currently, trains youths, pro athletes and women at
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392:. Hector appears in
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367:Héctor Vinent Cháron
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