Rolando Tucker

Rolando Tucker medal table
fencing
Cuba
Olympic games
bronze	Atlanta 1996	Foil team
World championships
gold	Budapest 1991	Foil team
gold	Athens 1994	foil
gold	The Hague 1995	Foil team
silver	Cape Town 1997	Foil team
Pan American Games
silver	Mar del Plata 1995	foil
gold	Mar del Plata 1995	Foil team
gold	Winnipeg 1999	foil
gold	Winnipeg 1999	Foil team

Rolando Samuel Tucker León (born December 31, 1971 in Havana ) is a former Cuban foil fencer .

successes

Rolando Tucker was world champion with the team in Budapest in 1991 and in The Hague in 1995 . He also achieved second place with her in 1997 in Cape Town . He achieved his best result in the individual in 1994 in Athens , when he became the first Cuban world champion in the individual after beating Alessandro Puccini in the final . At Pan American Games he won the gold medal with the team in Mar del Plata in 1995 and in Winnipeg in 1999 . In 1995 he won silver and 1999 gold.

He took part in the Olympic Games twice. In 1996 in Atlanta , Tucker, who was the flag bearer of the Cuban delegation at the opening ceremony, reached the quarterfinals of the individual competition, in which he was defeated by Wolfgang Wienand with 12:15. In the team competition, the Cuban team lost to Russia after an opening victory over South Korea in the semifinals with a score of 44:45. In the battle for third place, the team then prevailed 45:28 against Austria , so that Tucker received the bronze medal together with Elvis Gregory and Oscar García Pérez . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , he finished 14th in the individual, while he was seventh with the team.

Web links

• Rolando Tucker - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Rolando Tucker in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )