Orlando Martínez

Orlando Martínez Romero (born September 2, 1944 ) is a retired Cuban boxer . Martínez was Olympic champion in 1972 and winner of the 1975 Pan American Games . He was also a participant in the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1976 .

Career

Martínez was Cuban champion in 1967 in flyweight (-51 kg) and in 1969, 1973 and 1975 in bantamweight (-54 kg).

In 1968 Martínez started in flyweight at the Olympic Games in Mexico City , but was eliminated in the first fight against the Hungarian Tibor Badari (3-2). In 1972 he won the bantamweight games in Central America and the Caribbean in San José . a. Wilfred Benitez , Puerto Rico , struck. In the same year he started again at the Olympic Games and after victories over Maung Win, Burma (4: 1), he was third in the European Championship in 1971 Michael Dowling, Ireland (4: 1), and third in the Asian Championships in 1971 Ferry Moniaga , Indonesia (5-0), and George Turpin, Great Britain (3-2), the final. In this he faced the only 18-year-old later WBO world champion Alfonso Zamora , Mexico , whom he beat 5-0 judges' votes and thus won the Olympic gold medal.

In 1974 Martínez was eliminated from the Central American and Caribbean Games in the first fight against Wilfredo Gomez (4-1), which then also won the tournament. He also failed to Gomez in the semifinals of the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1974. The Central American and Caribbean Championships in the same year, however, he was able to win. At the Pan American Games in 1975 Martínez won the gold medal with a final victory over Bernard Taylor, USA (4-1). With this success behind him, he started the following year at the Olympic Games for the third time , but failed in the round of 16 against the silver medalist of the 1974 Asian Games, Chul Soon Hwang, South Korea (3-2).

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• amateur-boxing.strefa.pl