Rolando Garbey

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Rolando Garbey
Medal record
Men's Boxing
Competitor for  Cuba
Olympic Games
Silver 1968 Mexico City Light Middleweight
Bronze 1976 Montreal Light Middleweight
World Championships
Gold 1974 Havana Light Middleweight
Pan American Games
Gold 1967 Winnipeg Light Middleweight
Gold 1971 Cali Light Middleweight
Gold 1975 Mexico City Light Middleweight

Rolando Garbey Garbey (born November 19, 1947 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban boxer. He 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 a gold medalist at Light middleweight at the Pan-American games in 1967, 1971, and 1975.

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 Wiesław 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

References


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