Lightweight rowing was a category entered into the Olympic sport, originally due to countries of smaller stature competing with an unfair disadvantage, as rowing favors the taller athlete who has more leverage.
Marcelino Nicolas Lopez (born May 6, 1986 in Arribenos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a boxer in the Lightweight division.
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Agnaldo Nunes Magalhães (born March 7, 1976 in Piracicaba, São Paulo) is a Brazilian boxer, who represented his native country twice in the lightweight division at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.
Yumrukaya and his teammate İhsan Emre Vural took first place in the lightweight men's coxless pair event in the 2004 Under 23 World Championships held in Poznań, Poland.
Bobby Pacquiao made his debut at lightweight on June 9, 2007 where he fought soon-to-be WBC super featherweight champion Humberto Soto in a 10-round bout.
The men's lightweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
At the 2008 World Rowing Championships in Linz/Ottensheim, Austria she won her second world title and gold medal in the women's lightweight quad scull.
After seeing Panhard's Daimler-designed V-twin engine demonstrated at the Paris Exposition of 1889 and inquiring into the engine's weight and power, Armand Peugeot stated his interest in a lightweight motor vehicle powered by the engine.
On August 15, 1986, he lost by unanimous decision in his first world title shot to Jimmy Paul for the IBF lightweight title.
In 1991, Suter finished in second place in the 250cc International Lightweight class at the Daytona International Speedway.
The Friarton Bridge is a lightweight concrete road bridge across the Firth of Tay on the southeastern outskirts of Perth, Scotland, approximately 20 miles upstream of the Tay Road Bridge.
Hamlets provide an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, lightweight, small-footprint, servlet-based content creation framework that facilitates the development of Web-based applications.
Pariente was a lightweight participant in 2008 on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir, but was eliminated in season 8 by Efrain Escudero, The Ultimate Fighter lightweight winner of the season.
Along with the factory LDC, this lightweight is now believed to reside in the private collection of the current Viscount Cowdray.
His side projects include Markdown, a lightweight markup language, and a podcast called The Talk Show that he hosts on the Mule Radio Syndicate network.
Lazcano now fights at light welterweight and is a former WBF, NABF and IBA lightweight title holder and challenged for the IBO light welterweight title in May 2008 against Ricky Hatton.
He lost to Jessy Petit-Jean in a fight for the WKN World Lightweight Kickboxing Championship on November 17, 2012 in Liege, Belgium.
After four wins he was held to a draw in 1999 when he fought Philadelphia lightweight Anthony Washington (also 4-0 and an experienced amateur) in a six-round bout on an ESPN2 Friday Night Fights but received glowing remarks from ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas, who scored the fight for Pearson 57-56.
Larbi Benboudaoud (born 5 March 1974 in Bordj Zemoura, Algeria) is a judoka from France, who won the silver medal in the half lightweight (– 66 kg) division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Laurens is home to Gary Davis and Pink Anderson, acoustic blues musicians who were born in the city, as well as Redtop Davis, lightweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s.
Lightweight rowing was added to the Olympics in 1996 but this came under threat in 2002 when the Programme Commission of the IOC recommended that, outside combat sports and weightlifting, there should not be weight category events.
Further contributing to the weight advantage was the adoption of lightweight sequential manual transmission originally developed for Lotus 12 by Richard Ansdale and Harry Mundy incorporating the unique sequential-shifting gearbox and a ZF limited slip differential in a common Magnesium alloy housing to form a transaxle, which also provided the mounting points for inboard rear brakes.
On August 9, she faced junior lightweight world champion Isra Girgrah, taking the fight on short notice.
Miguel Ángel Albarracín (born June 8, 1981 in Pinto, Santiago del Estero) is a male judoka from Argentina, who won the bronze medal in the extra lightweight division (– 60 kg) at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
On July 25, 1987, Santana faced Pernell Whitaker, who defeated Santana by a sixth round knockout for the NABF and USBA lightweight titles in Norfolk, Virginia.
On 7 December 2013 he fought upcoming fighter Edis Tatli for the WBA Inter-continental lightweight title, but lost a decision.
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He fought Paulus Moses for the WBO international lightweight title, but the fight stopped in the 4th round.
Sled Dowabobo was given a spot in the men's lightweight category, after being chosen as one of the highest ranked Oceania athletes in any sporting discipline, without having qualified.
Omar Figueroa is the current World Boxing Council Lightweight world title holder, after Adrien Broner was stripped.
Shortly after a TKO in 10 over the popular Jorge Páez in 1992, Ruelas earned a shot at IBF Lightweight Title Freddie Pendleton, overcoming an early knockdown and winning by unanimous decision.
Remigio Daniel Molina (born November 6, 1977 in Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina) is a former Argentine professional boxer in the Lightweight division.
Ruslan Bodişteanu (born May 15, 1977 in Fundul Galbenei, Hîncești) is an amateur Moldovan freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's lightweight and welterweight categories.
He stopped former WBC lightweight champ Esteban De Jesús in the 13th round in July 1980 on the Holmes-LeDoux undercard; decisioned Termite Watkins over 15 on the Holmes-Ali undercard; won a 15-round nod over Jo Kimpuani on yet another undercard for a Larry Holmes fight (this time it was vs. Leon Spinks); went to Indonesia to decision Thomas Americo; and, in his last bout leaving the ring as champion, decisioned Obisio Nwankpa in Nigeria.
The revolutionary monocoque transverse engined front wheel drive 1959 Austin Mini, that set the template for modern front wheel drive cars, used front and rear subframes to provide accurate road wheel control while using a stiff lightweight body.
Jens "Little Evil" Pulver - Mixed Martial Arts Fighter, Ultimate Fighting Champsionship (UFC) lightweight champion, and former featherweight with World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC).
Escalera became a wrestler before returning to boxing, and had a strong comeback as a Lightweight, beating men like Maurice Watkins and Gene Hatcher before suffering a detached retina and retiring from boxing for good in 1983.
2001, Lucerne, Switzerland- Chapelle won a bronze medal in lightweight double sculls with Fabrice Moreau.
1400–1800 CE Pajamas: The original paijama are loose, lightweight trousers fitted with drawstring waistbands and worn in South and West Asia by both sexes.
Trains with a single Budd railmotor, which are also lightweight, and with discbrakes, had some problems when they stopped, and had to make a double stop to ensure good contact with the rails.
Newly crowned World Boxing Council lightweight and super featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao and Washington Wizards player Gilbert Arenas attended the July 6 games featuring host UP against NU and the Ateneo-La Salle game.
In July 2009, Antillón the pride of Maywood California, fought Miguel Acosta for the interim WBA Lightweight Championship.
Other modern features included SKF roller bearings on all axles and the innovative, lightweight SCOA-P type driving wheels, which were specially developed for the R class by the Steel Company of Australia.
On 25 November 2011 Limond fought Anthony Crolla for the British lightweight title but lost by unanimous decision.
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Limond eventually got his chance, and fought English champion Ryan Barrett for the WBU lightweight title on 29 June.
This event was supposed to feature the first WSOF Lightweight Championship bout between Justin Gaethje and Gesias Cavalcante.
The Greco-Roman lightweight competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics was part of the wrestling programme.
" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.
The Mexican was overwhelmed by a combination of quickness (hands and feet) and punching power that rivals another of Solis’ elite opponents, Manny Pacquiao, who had some trouble with Solis before stopping him in eight rounds in a junior lightweight bout in 2007.