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Legendary Olympic Trainer Victor Pascual to be inducted into the Republica Dominicana Hall of Fame By Gabriel F. Cordero PhilBoxing.com Wed, 01 Jul 2026  Victor Pascual. The Permanent Committee of the Dominican Sports Hall of Fame announced its selection for the 2026 Induction Class and 60th edition on Tuesday, June 30th, and announced the inclusion of legendary boxing trainer Victor Pascual at an event to be held on the morning of Sunday, November 15th, in the auditorium of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center in Santo Domingo. Víctor Pascual Linares made history by winning the Dominican Republic's first Olympic medal, a bronze with Pedro Julio Nolasco at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. He also traveled to all five continents with the national team, competing in various championships and events, winning over one hundred medals, including more than 40 gold. Pascual will be enshrined in the same hallowed halls of the nation as boxers he trained, such as Julio Nolasco, Eloncio Mercedes, Jorge Amparo, and Manuel de Jesús Herrera, inducted in 1997, 1999, 2019, and 2020, respectively, along with trainer Ruddy Zapata, who succeeded him as national coach. Pascual will be the 28th boxing inductee into the Hall of Fame, joining 23 boxers and 4 promoters. Pascual also trained former world champion Luis Santana. He joined the National Team as an assistant to the head coach at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico, which included boxers such as Eleoncio Mercedes, José Dolores Caba, and Jorge Amparo, all of whom later became renowned professional boxers. He concluded his participation as an Olympic coach in 1997. He was the director of the national team at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games in Medellín, winning three gold, two silver, and two bronze medals. At the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he won five medals: two silver and three bronze. He was present at the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow and at the 1982 World Championships in Munich, Germany. In 1981, he achieved the feat of defeating the Cuban team to become champions of the Central American and Caribbean Tournament, marking the first time the Dominican Republic had ever won that event. Among his students, Pedro Julio Nolasco won an Olympic medal and two Pan American Games titles (in San Juan 1979 and Caracas 1983). Eleoncio Mercedes was Pan American Games silver medalist in Mexico City 1975 and later became world flyweight champion in 1982. Luis Santana was a Central American Games champion and later a world champion in 1994. Jorge Amparo won gold in Medellín 1978 and bronze in the 1979 Pan American Games. Manuel Herrera competed in the Los Angeles and Seoul 1988 Olympic Games, was a junior world champion in 1983, won gold in the Santiago 1986 Central American Games and silver in the Indianapolis 1987 Pan American Games, and was a four-time world title challenger in professional boxing. He also had Héctor Julio Ávila who was a junior world runner-up, won gold at the Pan American Games and was the first Latin American boxer to win a gold medal in the remembered Córdoba Cardin tournament in Cuba; later he was a boxer and challenger for the world championship. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Gabriel F. Cordero.  |
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