Yoel Finol

Yoel Segundo Finol Rivas (born 21 September 1996) is a Venezuelan flyweight boxer. He won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. Finol will compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

He took up boxing in 2006 and fights as a southpaw.

He earned his first triumphs in national championships in his country, where he won first place in the Junior National Championship in the categories -34 kilos (2011) and -40 kilos (2012), and National Youth Games in the category - 49 kilos (2013).

In 2014 he participated in the World Youth Championship International Boxing Association (AIBA), held in Sofia (Bulgaria), where he was in the 7th position.

In 2015 he represented Venezuela in the Pan American Games held in Toronto, Canada, where he won the bronze medal in flyweight (-49 kg). That same year, he won a gold medal in the American Continental Championship Boxing Confederation (CAMA), this time in flyweight (-52 kilos), after defeating in the end to Cuban Yosbany Veitía by 2-1.

In 2016 he won a gold medal in flyweight in the World Olympic Qualifying held in Vargas (Venezuela), after defeating German Hamza Touba by 3 to 0.

This qualified him for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016, where he went through to the semifinals and lost to the eventual champion.