Alfredo Cornejo Cuevas is a former Chile

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an boxer

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, who won the gold medal in the welterweight

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 division at the 1959 Pan American Games

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 in Chicago

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, United States

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 http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panamboxing.shtml. In the same year he also won the world amateur welterweight title in Mexico City

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. He later fought four professional fights from 1961 to 1962.http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=212660 http://www.usaboxing.org/867.htm
As amateur, was three times South American Champion: as Light Welterweight in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1956, and in Santiago, Chile, 1957, and as Welterweight, in Lima, Peru, 1958

M. Cameron (Cordoba, Argentina) http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:212660