Arlo Chavez is a Filipino boxer who competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
15 Facts About Arlo Chavez
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Arlo Chavez is a gold medalist in the Asian Amateur Boxing Championships and is the most successful Filipino boxer in the Southeast Asian Games with four gold medals.
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Arlo Chavez was born on August 1,1966 in Bantayan Island in Cebu.
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The eldest of 10 children, Chavez became the head of their family when he was just a teenager after their parents died just a year within each other.
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Arlo Chavez and his brother Ronald, who was a member of the national boxing team, provided for their other siblings.
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Arlo Chavez captured a gold medal in the light welterweight division at the 1989 Southeast Asian Games in his first major international competition.
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Arlo Chavez lost to Poland's Dariusz Czernij in his opening bout.
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At the 1991 Asian Amateur Boxing Championship in Bangkok, Arlo Chavez topped the light welterweight category.
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Later that year, Arlo Chavez successfully defended his light welterweight title in the 1991 Southeast Asian Games in Manila.
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Arlo Chavez defeated Nigerian James Mozez in his first bout before losing to Romanian Leonard Doroftei in his next outing.
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Arlo Chavez won his third gold medal in the Southeast Asian Games in 1993, this time ruling the welterweight division in Singapore.
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Arlo Chavez competed at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima but lost to Uzbekistan's Nariman Atayev in the quarterfinals and went home empty-handed.
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Arlo Chavez won a record fourth gold medal in the Southeast Asian Games in 1995 after topping the welterweight division in Chiang Mai.
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Arlo Chavez was the only Filipino boxer to win a gold medal in the competition.
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Arlo Chavez retired after failing to qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics.