Lupe Gutierrez: Boxing Career Highlights
Lupe Gutierrez is an American amateur boxer whose career includes a 2015 junior world championship and a victory at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Her documented results place her among the leading U.S. women’s boxers of her generation, from the junior circuit through the elite trials. Team USA’s career profile records her major tournament finishes.
From junior champion to Olympic Trials winner
Gutierrez won the 2015 Junior World Championships and later built a strong record at U.S. national events. Team USA lists her third-place finish at the 2017 Elite National Championships and runner-up finishes at the 2017 Eastern Elite Qualifier and 2019 Western Elite Qualifier. The Team USA results profile documents those placements.
At the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, held in 2019, Gutierrez won the women’s 57-kilogram division after a series of box-offs against Andrea Medina. Local coverage reported that Gutierrez won the final bout by a 4–1 decision to take the title. The KPLC report recounts the final, while the USA Boxing preview identifies her as the 2020 Trials winner and a 2015 junior world champion.
A return to the 2024 Trials
Gutierrez later competed as a U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program boxer. In March 2023, she earned silver at the National Qualifier, placing her among the boxers who advanced to the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. At those Trials, she faced Jasmine Hampton in the opening round and lost; USA Boxing’s event report records the result. The U.S. Army account covers her 2023 qualifier, and USA Boxing’s Trials report records her 2024 bout. Her results show a career spanning junior international success, a national Trials championship, and a later return to the elite competition stage.
Gutierrez’s story is also part of the broader history of American boxing, where national tournaments and Olympic Trials create a path for amateur fighters to compete at the highest levels.
Sources
Team USA’s career profile; KPLC report.
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Lupe Gutierrez, Boxing, Sports History
