Career
Hector appears in Brin-Jonathan Butler"s forthcoming documentary Split Decision. Olympic Gold Medalist (Barcelona 1992)
Olympic Gold Medalist (Berlin 1996)
Retired in 2000 after an operation for a detached retina
Hector Vinent holds notable victories over future professional World Champions Shane Mosley, Stevie Johnston, Fernando Vargas, David Diaz, Daniel Santos and Diosbelys Hurtado. Defeated fellow Olympic Gold Medalists Andreas Zulow, Oleg Saitov, Yermakhan Ibrayimov, Hocine Soltani and Diegenes Luna.
lieutenant was his first adult championship, prior he had fought in the youth championships.
In 2012, RingTV posted an article on the 10 Top Olympic Fighters of all time. In the article, writer Lee Groves placed Cuba’s Hector Vinent as number five and his section on Vinent featured the following line:
“Vinent, who equaled Kulej’s feat of two consecutive golds at junior welterweight, certainly had the youth and talent to shoot for a third gold in Sydney—and maybe an unprecedented fourth in Athens—but for reasons unknown to this writer he didn’t.”
1992 Light Welterweight Gold Medalist
Defeated Edwin Cassiani (Colombia) 27-4
Defeated Andreas Zulow (Germany) 14-2
Defeated Oleg Nikolaev (Unified Team/Russia) 26-3
Defeated Jyri Kjall (Finland) 13-3
Defeated Mark Leduc (Canada) 11-1
1996 Light Welterewight Gold Medalist
Defeated Hyung-Minister Han (South of Korea) Royal Society of Chemistry 2 (1:00)
Defeated Nurhan Suleymanoglu (Turkey) 23-1
Defeated Edward Zakharov (Russia) 17-15
Defeated Bolat Niyazymbetov (Kazakhstan) 23-6
Defeated Oktay Urkal (Germany) 20-13
1993 (as a Light Welterweight)
Defeated Zeljko Rastovic (Croatia) Royal Society of Chemistry 3
Defeated Nurhan Suleymanoglu (Turkey) Royal Society of Chemistry 2
Defeated Nordine Mouchi (France) 19-2
Defeated Oktay Urkal (Germany) 12-7
Defeated Jyri Kjall (Finland) 7-1
1995 (as a Light Welterweight)
Defeated Abdellah Benbiar (Morocco) KO 3
Defeated Jacek Bielski (Poland) 6-1
Defeated Sergey Bykovskiy (Belarus) 7-1
Defeated Radoslav Suslekov (Bulgaria) Royal Society of Chemistry 2
Defeated Nurhan Suleymanoglu (Turkey) 7-4
Hector was forced to retire at a young age to an injury to his left eye.
He had been examined by the doctors an was unable to continue as he had retinal detachment damage and continuing would eventually make him blind for life. However,this could not beem done due to retirement.
Hector currently, trains youths at the Rafael Trejo gym in Havana Cuba.
In 2015 he began training aspiring international fighters in conjunction with Xtreme Gap Year.