Yankiel Rivera Figueroa (born September 10, 1997) is a Puerto Rican flyweight boxer.

[1] Rivera won bronze at the Pan American Youth Championships in Quito in 2014.

[2] He lost to Leandro Blanc in the quarter-finals of the 2016 continental Olympic qualification in Buenos Aires[3] and competed at the 2017 World Boxing Championships in Hamburg, where he lost to the eventual runner-up Jasurbek Latipov in the preliminary round.

[6] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American-continental Olympic qualification tournament in Buenos Aires planned for May 2021 was canceled and a qualification based on the continental ranking was decided instead, which secured Rivera a starting place as number 3 in the ranking.

[7] Yankiel Rivera is scheduled to face Angel Gonzalez in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 7, 2024.