Name: Richard Torrez Jr.
Sport: Boxing
Weight Class: Super heavyweight
Classification: 91+ kg
DOB: 6/1/1999
Hometown: Tulare, Calif.
Team/Club: Tulare Athletic Boxing CLub
Coach(es): Richard Torrez Sr.
Olympic Experience
- Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, silver super heavyweight
World Championship Experience
- 2019 Elite World Championships - 5th
- 2016 Youth World Championships - 3rd
- 2015 Junior World Championships - 5th
Other Career Highlights
- 2020 Boxam Tournament - 1st
- 2019 Pan American Games - 3rd
- 2019 Pan American Games Qualifier - 3rd
- 2019 Strandja Tournament - 1st
- 2018 Chemistry Cup - 1st
- 2017 Bradenburg Cup
- 2018 Elite National Championships - 1st
- 2017 Elite National Championships - 1st
- 2017 National Golden Gloves - 1st
- 2015 Youth National Championships - 1st
- 2015 Youth Open - 1st
- 2014 Junior National Championships - 1st
- 2013 Junior National Championships - 1st
Personal:
Graduated as High School Valedictorian...was a member of his school's Robotics and Chess Clubs...enjoys magic tricks ...has a golden retriever named Dempsy...can solve a Rubik's cube...father competed in 1984 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Boxing...favorite music artist is Beethoven
