Marco Verde
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Verde at the 2024 Olympic medal ceremony | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nickname | Green | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Marco Alonso Verde Álvarez 11 February 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | Super middleweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Reach | 1.79 m (70 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boxing record | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total fights | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Win by KO | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marco Alonso Verde Álvarez (born 11 February 2002) is a Mexican professional boxer. As an amateur, he won an Olympic silver medal in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Olympic results
Verde won the gold medal in the 2023 Pan American Games in Boxing in the 71 kg category.[2][3][4][5] He also won the silver medal in the welterweight category at the 2024 Summer Olympics after losing the final bout against Uzbek Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev.
2024 – Paris
- Round of 16 – defeated Tiago Muxanga (Mozambique) 3–2
- Quarterfinals – defeated Nishant Dev (India) 4–1
- Semifinals – defeated Lewis Richardson (Great Britain) 3–2
- Final – lost to Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev (Uzbekistan) 0–5 (won silver medal)