Raúl Cascaret

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Raúl Cascaret Fonseca (born June 20, 1962 in Santiago de Cuba , † March 26, 1995 in Havana ) was a Cuban wrestler . He was world champion in 1985 and 1986 in free style welterweight.

Career

Raúl Cascaret grew up in Santiago de Cuba and began wrestling there as a teenager in 1975. He developed very quickly and wrestled exclusively in free style. The trainer who introduced him to the Cuban and the world elite was Hugo Shelton Echevarria. He was later trained by Pedro Val, Filiberto Delgado and Isidor Canedo in the Cuban national wrestling relay. Cascaret started at a height of 1.65 meters in featherweight and grew over the years from light to welterweight.

His international career began in 1979, at the age of 17. He finished this year in featherweight 1st place at the Pan American Junior Championships and 3rd place at the Junior World Championships in Ulaanbaatar behind Magomet-Gassan Abuschew from the USSR and Simeon Schterew from Bulgaria . At the Pan American Games in 1979 in San Juan (Puerto Rico) , he finished second behind the American Andre Metzger .

In 1980 it was used at the Olympic Games in Moscow . In featherweight he defeated Zoltan Szalontai from Hungary , Jan Szymański from Poland and Giorgios Hatzioannidis from Greece and was defeated by Miho Dukow from Bulgaria and Magomet-Gassan Abuschew . As a result, he came in 4th place and narrowly missed bronze. The Giorgios Hatzioannidis he defeated won the bronze medal.

At the 1981 World Cup in Skopje, Cascaret moved up to the lightweight. He won there against the Chinese Rom O In and the Mongols Bujandelgeriin Bold and lost to Andrew Rein from the United States and You In-tak from South Korea . With these results he reached the 7th place. In the same year he was in Bucharest student world champion in the lightweight. Here he defeated You In-tak in the final.

In 1982 he made a big leap forward when he was runner- up in the lightweight world championship in Edmonton . He only lost to Mikhail Tscharachura from the Soviet Union . He was able to leave Eberhard Probst from the GDR and Andre Metzger from the United States behind. He celebrated another success at the Pan American Games in 1983 in Caracas . He won there in the lightweight before the US-Americans Lonny Zalesky and Pat Sullivan from Canada . At the 1983 World Cup in Kiev , he lost in his pool against Arsen Fadsayev from the USSR and against Kamen Penew from Bulgaria and thus only reached 3rd place in the pool. He was able to save 5th place in the overall result with a victory over the Hungarian Zoltan Szalontai .

Cascaret was unable to take part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because most of the socialist states of the time boycotted these games for political reasons.

From 1985 Cascaret started in the welterweight division and the two most successful years of his career followed. In 1985 he became world champion for the first time in Budapest . He defeated the US Olympic champion of 1984 David Schultz with 3-1 technical points in the final fight of the welterweight division . In 1986 he successfully defended this title in Budapest. He beat his Soviet rival Adlan Varaew in the final .

In 1987, Cascaret was no longer in the form of 1985 and 1986. This was already evident at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis , where he lost in the final against David Schultz and came in second behind him. Things went even worse for him at the World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand . Here he finished 3rd in his pool after defeats against Uwe Westendorf from the GDR and Adlan Varaew . In the fight for 5th place, he defeated Yan Kyung-jae from South Korea .

In the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , Cascaret could not take part again. The reason was that Fidel Castro's Cuba was the only country in the world to boycott these games as well.

After that, Cascaret started in 1989 at the Pan American Championships and finished second in the middleweight division behind the American Royce Alger .

He then ended his career as an active wrestler. He completed his sports studies and worked in Santiago de Cuba as a wrestler trainer. Raúl Cascaret, who was married to the 800 world champion from 1995 and 1997 Ana Fidelia Quirot , died in a traffic accident at the age of almost 33.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, back then up to 62 kg, 68 kg, 74 kg and 82 kg body weight)

  • 1979, 1st place , Pan American Junior Championship in Monterrey , F, Fe, ahead of John Selmon, USA a . Rafael Robertty, Venezuela ;
  • 1983, 1st place , Pan-American Games in Caracas , F, Le, ahead of Lenny Zalesky, USA a. Pat Sullivan, Canada ;
  • 1986, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio), F, We, behind Nate Carr , USA a. before Anatoly Ponomarjew, USSR a. Lodoin Enchbajar ;
  • 1986, 1st place , Central America. u. Caribbean Games in Santiago (Dom. Rep.), F, We, in front of Francisco Lora, Dom. Rep. U. Jose E. Betancourt Rosario, Puerto Rico ;
  • 1987, 5th place , World Championship in Clermont-Ferrand , F, We, behind Adlan Varaew, David Schultz, Uwe Westendorf , GDR a. Yan Kyung-jae, South Korea;
  • 1989, 3rd place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio), F, We, behind Rico Chiapparello, USA a. Juri Worobiew , USSR, before Lee Dong-woo, South Korea a. Gary Holmes;

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 8/1980, 10/1981, 9/1982, 10/1983, 11/1985, 11/1986, 9/1087,
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Cascaret, Raúl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cascaret Fonseca, Raúl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION cuban wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Cuba , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1995
Place of death Havana , Cuba