Alfonso Pérez (boxer)
Alfonso Pérez (born 16 January 1949 in Cartagena) is a retired boxer from Colombia, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division (– 60 kilograms) at the 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1971 he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. He turned professional on 6 April 1973, and retired in 1981 after 40 bouts (27 wins, 10 losses and 3 draws, 20 of those wins by way of knockout). Perez could fight as a lightweight or lose weight and compete as a featherweight, and he won by knockout in three rounds over the then-undefeated, future WBA world featherweight champion and hall of fame member Eusebio Pedroza. Perez was national champion in Colombia both as a featherweight and as a lightweight, and also the WBC's Caribbean area lightweight champion. 1972 Olympic record
Below is the record of Alfonso Pérez at the 1972 Munich Olympics:

 Round of 64: bye
 Round of 32: defeated Peter Odhiambo II (Uganda) by decision, 5-0
 Round of 16: defeated Karel Kaspar (Czechoslovakia) by decision, 5-0
 Quarterfinal: defeated Erasian Doruk (Turkey) by decision, 3-2
 Semifinal: lost to Laszlo Orban (Hungary) by decision, 2-3 (Perez was awarded a bronze medal)

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1949 births
Living people
Colombian male boxers
Lightweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Colombia
Olympic bronze medalists for Colombia
Olympic medalists in boxing
Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games silver medalists for Colombia
Pan American Games medalists in boxing
Boxers at the 1971 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games
Sportspeople from Cartagena, Colombia
20th-century Colombian people