The Spanish Rafael Lozano Junior It premiered at the Olympic Games in Paris with a resounding victory over the Australian Yusuf Chotia, world number five, and reached the quarter-finals of the 51-kilogram category, placing himself one step away from the semi-finals that guarantee a medal.
Lozano Junior, 19 years old and nicknamed ‘El balín’, has arrived in Paris ready to follow his father’s legacy, Rafa Lozano, who participated in three Olympic Games and won two medals, the silver in Sydney 2000 and the bronze in Atlanta ’96. In addition, as national coach, they share the Olympic dream as a family.
The Spaniard took all three rounds of the fight and won 1-4 Yusuf Chotiathree-time Australian national champion and already a candidate for a podium finish in Paris, something he will no longer be able to achieve.
‘El Balín’ showed himself very confident in his attackstook the initiative of the attacks from the beginning and hit their rival hard, who began to fall apart as the minutes passed without finding a way to react.
The president of the Higher Council of Sports, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribesand the president of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alexander Blanco, were in the stands of the Paris Arena North.
