Profile details
- Born
- 12 Jan 1961
- Birthplace
- Añasco
- Country
- United States
- Weight
- 75 kg
- Sport
- Boxing
- Discipline
- Combat
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
District, height, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- No recorded honours or awards.
Competition Appearances
1 recorded appearance, most significant first.
- ·1984 Summer Olympics
Career Timeline
- 1984Competed at 1984 Summer Olympics
Statistics
About
Ariestides González Ortíz (born January 12, 1961) is a boxer from Puerto Rico, who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He shared the podium with Algeria's Mohamed Zaoui. Although Juan Evangelista Venegas was the first Puerto Rican to win an olympic medal (boxing, 1948) González was the second to win a medal representing Puerto Rico under the Puerto Rican flag, after Orlando Maldonado became the first at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Biography adapted from Arístides González on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.