Alejandro Puerto

{{Short description|Cuban wrestler (born 1964)}} {{family name hatnote|Puerto|Díaz|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Alejandro Puerto | image = | caption = | fullname = Alejandro Puerto Díaz | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|October 1, 1964}} | birth_place = Pinar del Río, Cuba | death_date = | death_place = | headercolor = lightsteelblue | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's freestyle wrestling}} {{MedalCountry | {{CUB}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} center|80px {{MedalGold| 1992 Barcelona |57 kg}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalGold | 1990 Tokyo | 57 kg}} {{MedalGold | 1994 Istanbul | 57 kg}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalGold | 1987 Indianapolis | 57 kg}} {{MedalSilver | 1991 Havana | 57 kg}} {{MedalBronze | 1983 Caracas | 52 kg}} {{MedalBronze | 1995 Mar del Plata | 57 kg}} }}

'''Alejandro Puerto Díaz''' (born October 1, 1964) is a retired male wrestler from Cuba and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.<ref>{{cite sports-reference |url= https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pu/alejandro-puerto-1.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200418113027/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pu/alejandro-puerto-1.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 2020-04-18}}</ref>

Puerto competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona where he won a gold medal in the men's freestyle wrestling event, the ''bantamweight'' class.<ref name=db-ol-WRE1992>[http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=23&sp=WRE "1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Wrestling"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907042854/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=23&sp=WRE |date=2008-09-07 }} ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 9, 2008)</ref>

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{{Olympic Champions freestyle wrestling bantamweight}} {{World Champions freestyle wrestling bantamweight}} {{Authority control}}

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