Yosvany Veitía

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| full_name = Yosvany Veitía Soto

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|3|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba

| country = Cuba

| sport = Boxing

| event = Light flyweight

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| coach = Rolando Acebal

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Yosvany Veitía Soto (also spelled Yosbany, born 12 March 1992) is a Cuban amateur boxer in the light flyweight division who competed at the 2012 Olympics.{{cite web |url=http://www.cubaencuentro.com/deportes/noticias/yosvany-veitia-segundo-boxeador-cubano-eliminado-en-boxeo-olimpico-279021 |title=Yosvany Veitía, segundo boxeador cubano eliminado en boxeo olímpico |website=Cubaencuentro.com |date=4 August 2012 |language=es}} He is a southpaw.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

Career

At the 2010 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships he won a bronze medal.

At the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships he beat Birzhan Zhakypov and two unknowns but was stopped by Mongolian defending champion Pürevdorjiin Serdamba.

At the 2011 Pan American Games he lost the final to local Joselito Velázquez.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics he beat Australian Billy Ward 26:4, then lost to eventual winner Zou Shiming 10:13.

He also holds two notable wins over Naoya Inoue, ranked as the world's best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring, the Boxing Writer's Association of America,{{cite web |title=Boxing pound-for-pound rankings: Terence Crawford or Naoya Inoue? And what about Errol Spence Jr.? |url=https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/38114947/boxing-pound-pound-rankings-great-debate-terence-crawford-naoya-inoue-errol-spence-jr |website=ESPN.com |publisher=ESPN |access-date=19 August 2023}} The Transnational Boxing Ranking Board, ESPN, and fourth overall by BoxRec.{{cite web |title=Ratings-The Ring |url=https://www.ringtv.com/ratings/ |website=The Ring |access-date=19 August 2023}}{{cite web |title=Terence Crawford Is The BWAA's New No. 1 Pound-For-Pound King |url=https://www.bwaa.org/single-post/terence-crawford-is-the-bwaa-s-new-no-1-pound-for-pound-king |website=Boxing Writer's Association of America |access-date=19 August 2023}}{{cite web |title=Transnational Boxing Rankings Board P4P Rankings |url=https://tbrb.org/p4p |website=The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board |access-date=19 August 2023}}{{cite web |title=BoxRec Male Pound for Pound Rankings |url=https://boxrec.com/en/ratings |website=BoxRec |access-date=19 August 2023}}

He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web|title=Boxing VEITIA Yosbany|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/boxing/athlete-profile-n1362274-veitia-yosbany.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=29 August 2021|work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics|publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games|archive-date=29 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829200213/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/boxing/athlete-profile-n1362274-veitia-yosbany.htm}}