Pedro Gamarro

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Pedro Gamarro (born January 8, 1955 in Machiques , Venezuela , † May 7, 2019 ) was a Venezuelan boxer . He won at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , the silver medal in the welterweight division.

Career

Pedro Gamarro started boxing in his hometown of Machiques.

In 1973 he became the first Venezuelan light welterweight champion (up to 63.5 kg body weight). This is where the international career of the “bronze” boxer began.

In 1974 he started at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Caracas , where he won the light welterweight finals over Orlando Palacios from Cuba . A very remarkable achievement, because a victory over a Cuban boxer was and always is a special achievement.

In 1975 he won 3rd place in the tournament for the Golden Belt in Belgrade in welterweight (up to 67 kg body weight) behind Victor Zilberman from Romania and Farid from Iran . In the same year he won the Central American and Caribbean championships for the second time in Guatemala City ; in the final he won against the Mexican M. Dorantes. At the Pan American Games in Mexico City , also in 1975, he reached third place in welterweight behind the Americans Clinton Jackson and Kenneth Bristol from Guiana .

The highlight of his career were the fights at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976. In the preliminary round, he defeated the strong Marijan Beneš from Yugoslavia with 5-0 judges' votes on points. In the round of 16 he achieved a great sensation, because he defeated the 1972 Olympic champion Emilio Correa from Cuba, who had to be taken out of the fight against him in the third round. In the quarterfinals he defeated Clinton Jackson, against whom he had lost the previous year, with 3-2 judges' votes on points, and in the semifinals he defeated the German starter Reinhard Skricek with the same result. If Pedro Gamarro was lucky with these two narrow 3: 2 point wins, this luck failed him in the final battle, because he lost here against Jochen Bachfeld from Schwerin with also 3: 2 judges' votes and had to be satisfied with the silver medal . Nevertheless, this medal was a great success for him, especially since it was the only medal that Venezuelan athletes won at these Olympic Games.

In 1977 Pedro Gamarro won a major boxing tournament (Batalla de Caraboco) in Caracas; in the final battle he defeated Luis Felipe Martínez again a Cuban boxer on points. Against the same boxer he lost a few months later at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Panama City in the semifinals and came in third place at these championships.

In 1978 Pedro Gamarro competed at the World Championships in Belgrade. He met there in his first preliminary round fight on Miodrag Perunović from Yugoslavia, who defeated him with 4-1 judges' votes on points and threw him out of the race.

From 1979 to 1982 Pedro Gamarro was inactive. In 1983 he made a comeback attempt. He started u. a. at the World Cup in Rome and lost there in the quarterfinals in the middleweight (up to 75 kg body weight) to the South Korean Shin Joon-sup on points. At the Pan American Games in Caracas, he finished third in the middleweight division behind Bernardo Gomez from Cuba and Alfredo Delgado from Puerto Rico .

He then resigned for good and became a coach in his home country.

He died on May 7, 2019 as a result of years of heart problems.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jesús Milano: The WBA family regrets the death of Pedro Gamarro In: wbaboxing.com of May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 12, 2019.
  2. ^ "Episodios Olímpicos (XXXI) Pedro Gamarro. Montreal 1976 " in the blog" Atmósfera de atardecer en el maizal " ( Memento from December 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Pedro Gamarro in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Gamarro, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan boxer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Machiques , Venezuela
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2019