Rolando Garbey

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Medal record
Men's Boxing
Competitor for Flag of Cuba 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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