{"id":17934,"date":"2026-10-29T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=17934"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:12:06","slug":"bronze-for-guantanamo-julio-cesar-chivas-at-u-19-boxing-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/bronze-for-guantanamo-julio-cesar-chivas-at-u-19-boxing-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronze for Guant\u00e1namo Julio C\u00e9sar Chiv\u00e1s at U-19 Boxing World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17935 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boxing-guantanamo_juliocesar-chivas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boxing-guantanamo_juliocesar-chivas.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boxing-guantanamo_juliocesar-chivas-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>Guantanamo.- Julio C\u00e9sar Chiv\u00e1s secured a bronze medal at the U19 Boxing World Championship in Budva, Montenegro, marking him as the sole medalist for the Cuban delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a strong effort, he was defeated in the semifinals by Uzbek fighter SardOrbek Bakhromkhujaev, which ultimately earned him a valuable bronze for Cuba, who sent a team of four boxers, including two men and two women.<\/p>\n<p>The semifinal bout began poorly for Chiv\u00e1s, who lost the first round 0-5 due to an insecure performance that strayed from his coaches&#8217; strategies. However, he managed to improve in the second round, although the judges awarded the round 4-1 to his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Michel Lugo noted that while Chiv\u00e1s started strong in the final round, he lost momentum, allowing Bakhromkhujaev to capitalize and win the round 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the tournament, Chiv\u00e1s achieved notable victories, defeating Ukrainian Hlieb Kvach by unanimous decision in the round of 16 and winning 4-1 against local fighter Matija Roganovic in the quarterfinals, where he even scored a knockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, his exit marked the end of Cuba&#8217;s participation, as other competitors, including Iverson Acosta and female boxers Liyanet Ben\u00edtez and Yenisel Durruty, also faced defeats, highlighting a concerning trend of no finalists for Cuba in this championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo.- Julio C\u00e9sar Chiv\u00e1s secured a bronze medal at the U19 Boxing World Championship in Budva, Montenegro, marking him as the sole medalist for the Cuban delegation. Despite a strong effort, he was defeated in the semifinals by Uzbek fighter SardOrbek Bakhromkhujaev, which ultimately earned him a valuable bronze for Cuba, who sent a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guantanamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17936,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17934\/revisions\/17936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}