Rolando Garbey

Rolando Garbey (born November 19, 1947 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a former Cuban boxer . He was the first boxer to win an Olympic medal for Cuba. He is the uncle of Ramón Garbey .

amateur

Garbey won 1967 in the light middleweight (-71 kg) with a final victory over Víctor Galíndez , Argentina, the Pan American Games . At the Olympic Games in the following year Garbey reached after victories over Eamonn McCusker, Ireland (TKO 1st), Detlef Dahn , GDR (3: 2), Eric Blake, Great Britain (KO 1st), and Johnny Baldwin , USA (4: 1 ), the final, which he lost against defending champion Boris Lagutin , Soviet Union (5: 0), making it the first Cuban to win a boxing medal.

In 1970 Garbey won the Central American and Caribbean Games and in 1971 the Pan American Games for the second time . At the 1972 Olympic Games he won against Ricky Barnor, Ghana (5-0), Franz Csandl , Austria (5-0) and Jae Keun Lim, South Korea (TKO 2nd), but had to face the Poland and later silver medalist Wiesław in the quarter-finals Rudkowski defeated (4: 1). In the same year he also won the Central American and Caribbean Championships, a title he won the following year.

1974 Garbey was able to defend his title at the Central American and Caribbean Games and won the first ever World Championships with a final victory over Alfredo Lemus , Venezuela (3-2) . In 1975 he won the gold medal for the third time at the Pan American Games .

1976 Garbey took part again in the Olympic Games and reached after victories over Dashnian Olzwoi, Mongolia (KO 3rd), Earl Liburd, American Virgin Islands (RSC 2nd), and Kalevi Kosunen, Finland (RSC 1st), the semi-finals, which he lost to Tadija Kačar , Yugoslavia (4-1) and thus won the bronze medal.

He later became the coach of Guillermo Rigondeaux .

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• Rolando Garbey in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
• boxrec.com