Alfredo Perez (born February 11 1952) is a retired Venezuelan boxer. He competed for his South American nation at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Canada. There he was defeated in the Men's Flyweight ( 51 kg) division by Poland's eventual bronze medal winner Leszek Bazynski. Perez won the gold medal in the same weight division at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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