HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 13 (acn) Cuba had a flawless semifinal of three wins and will try to achieve six crowns between Wednesday and Thursday at the World Boxing Championship organized in the capital of Qatar.
Cuba will be the most represented country in the final after Yosbany Veitia, Lazaro Alvarez and Julio Cesar La Cruz joined the already qualified Joahnys Argilagos , Arlen Lopez and Erislandy Savon.
The flyweight Veitía beat 3-0 Chinese Jianguan Hu and thus improved his bronze two years ago, but then he competed in the next lower division.
The Pan Am runner up left excellent impression in the Ali Bin Hamad Arena where his squad has received constant support from fellow collaborators in that nation and will rival Azeri Elvin Mamishada in the final.
Alvarez defeated also 3-0 Uzbek Elnur Abdurahimov as ratification of the expertise that makes him favorite to reissue his hegemony in lightweight division and complete three titles in a row, coupled to the one as featherweight in Bakú'11, and will face Azeri Albert Selimov for the gold medal.
Meanwhile, La Cruz also won 3-0 over Russian Pavel Silyagin and will fight against Irish Joseph Ward, executioner 3-0 of Uzbek Elshod Rasulov, whom he beat in the tourney of 2013 , where he finished with bronze medal.
The light flyweight Argilagos h as been the sensation despite being only 18, middleweight Lopez has also generated praise and cruiser Savon was solid in his most recent outing and completes the sextet that wants to be crown tomorrow.
Cuba does not have six finalists or more since the seven titles achieved in Belfast '01, and it's been four years it does not win by teams.
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