Alfonso Pérez (born 16 January 1949 in Cartagena) is a retired boxer from Colombia, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division (– 60 kilograms) at the 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1971 he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. He turned professional on 6 April 1973, and retired in 1981 after 40 bouts (27 wins, 10 losses and 3 draws, 20 of those wins by way of knockout).

Perez could fight as a lightweight or lose weight and compete as a featherweight, and he won by knockout in three rounds over the then-undefeated, future WBA world featherweight champion and hall of fame member Eusebio Pedroza. Perez was national champion in Colombia both as a featherweight and as a lightweight, and also the WBC's Caribbean area lightweight champion.

Alfonso Pérez (boxer)

1972 Olympic record

Below is the record of Alfonso Pérez at the 1972 Munich Olympics:

Alfonso Pérez (boxer)

Round of 64: bye

Round of 32: defeated Peter Odhiambo II (Uganda) by decision, 5-0

Round of 16: defeated Karel Kaspar (Czechoslovakia) by decision, 5-0

Quarterfinal: defeated Erasian Doruk (Turkey) by decision, 3-2

Semifinal: lost to Laszlo Orban (Hungary) by decision, 2-3 (Perez was awarded a bronze medal)

Alfonso Pérez (boxer)

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1949 births

Living people

Colombian male boxers

Lightweight boxers

Olympic boxers for Colombia

Olympic bronze medalists for Colombia

Olympic medalists in boxing

Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Pan American Games silver medalists for Colombia

Pan American Games medalists in boxing

Boxers at the 1971 Pan American Games

Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games

Sportspeople from Cartagena, Colombia

20th-century Colombian people