Rolando Garbey
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Medal record | |||
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Men's Boxing | |||
Competitor for Cuba | |||
Olympic Games | |||
Silver | 1968 Mexico City | Light Middleweight | |
Bronze | 1976 Montreal | Light Middleweight | |
World Championships | |||
Gold | Havana 1974 | Light Middleweight | |
Pan American Games | |||
Gold | Winnipeg 1967 | Light Middleweight | |
Gold | Cali 1971 | Light Middleweight | |
Gold | Mexico City 1975 | Light Middleweight |
Rolando Garbey Garbey (born November 19, 1947 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban boxer who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category. He won an Olympic silver medal in 1968 and a bronze medal in 1976. In 1974, at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, he won the world title. Garbey was also gold medalist at Light middleweight at the Pan-American games in 1967, 1971, and 1975.
[edit] Olympic results
1968
- Defeated Eric Blake (Great Britain) KO 1 (quarterfinal)
- Defeated Johnny Baldwin (United States) 4-1
- Lost to Boris Lagutin (Soviet Union) 0-5
1972
- Defeated Ricky Barnor (Ghana) 5-0
- Defeated Franz Csandl (Austria) 5-0
- Defeated Jae Keun-Lim (South Korea) TKO 2
- Lost to Wieslaw Rudkowski (Poland) 1-4
1976
- Defeated Dashnian Olzwoi (Mongolia) KO 3
- Defeated Earl Liburd (Virgin Islands) RSC 2
- Defeated Kalevi Kosunen (Finland) RSC 1
- Lost to Tadija Kačar (Yugoslavia) 1-4
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Categories: 1947 births | Living people | Cuban boxers | Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics | Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics | Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics | Olympic boxers of Cuba | Olympic silver medalists for Cuba | Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba | Caribbean boxing biography stubs | Cuban sportspeople stubs