Armando Martínez

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Martínez and the second or maternal family name is Limendu.

Armando Martínez

Detlef Kästner (left) battling Armando Martínez

Personal information

Full name

Armando Martínez Limendu

Nationality

Cuba

Born

August 29, 1961 (age 50)
Majagua, Ciego de Ávila

Height

1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Weight

71 kilograms (160 lb)

Sport

Boxing

Rated at

Light Middleweight

Medal record

Olympic Games
Gold	1980 Moscow	Light Middleweight
World Amateur Championships
Silver	1982 Munich	Light Middleweight

Armando Martínez Limendu (born August 29, 1961) is a Cuban boxer. At 18 years of age he won the gold medal in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category at the 1980 Summer Olympics, beating Aleksandr Koshkyn in the final.

In 1982 he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany, this time losing to Koshkyn. He had previously won a silver medal at the 1978 World Championships.

Olympic results

Defeated Zygmunt Gosiewski (Poland) 5-0
Defeated George Kabuto (Uganda) RSC 1
Defeated Francisco de Jesus (Brazil) 5-0
Defeated Jan Franek (Czechoslovakia) RSC 2
Defeated Aleksandr Koshkyn (Soviet Union) 4-1

References

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Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Light Middleweight

1952-2000: 67-71 kg

1952–1956: László Papp (HUN) • 1960: Wilbert McClure (USA) • 1964–1968: Boris Lagutin (URS) • 1972: Dieter Kottysch (FRG) • 1976: Jerzy Rybicki (POL) • 1980: Armando Martínez (USA) • 1984: Frank Tate (USA) • 1988: Park Si-Hun (KOR) • 1992: Juan Carlos Lemus (CUB) • 1996: David Reid (USA) • 2000: Yermakhan Ibraimov (KAZ)

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Name	Martinez, Armando
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Date of birth	August 29, 1961
Place of birth	Majagua, Ciego de Ávila
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