Isaac Azcuy

Isaac Azcuy Oliva (born June 3, 1953 in Pinar del Río ) is a former Cuban judoka . He won an Olympic silver medal in 1980.

The 1.78 m tall Azcuy competed in the middleweight division up to 80 kilograms until 1976 and was Cuban champion in 1973 and 1974. After the reorganization of the weight classes in 1977 he fought in the middleweight division, now up to 86 kilograms, and in 1977 and 1982 he won the championship title in this weight class. From 1982 he started in the light heavyweight division up to 95 kilograms and was here in 1984 and 1986 Cuban champion.

Azcuy won his first Cuban championship in the open class in 1972. He took part in the middleweight division at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , but was eliminated in his first fight against Swiss Philippe Aubert . In 1974 and 1978 he won the Pan American Championships. In 1979 he took third place at the pre-Olympic tournament held in Moscow, Spartakiad. A year later he reached the final at the Olympic tournament in Moscow with victories over Detlef Ultsch from the GDR in the quarter-finals and Walter Carmona from Brazil in the semi-finals, which he lost to the Swiss Jürg Röthlisberger by a juko rating .

In 1982 Azcuy won the Tournoi de Paris . In 1983 he won the title at the Pan American Games in Caracas by beating the Brazilian Aurélio Miguel in the final . At the 1983 World Championships in Moscow he was defeated by the GDR judoka Andreas Preschel in the quarter-finals, in the battle for the bronze medal he lost to the Belgian Robert Van De Walle . In 1984 Azcuy won again at the Pan American Championships.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

Web links

• Isaac Azcuy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Isaac Azcuy on judoinside.com