| Full name | Rolando Garbey Garbey |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 19 November 1947 |
| Birth place | Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
| Death date | 16 December 2023 (aged 76) |
| Death place | Havana, Cuba |
| Height | 183 cm |
| Weight | 71 kg |
| Weight class | Light middleweight (-71 kg) |
| Show-medals | yes |
Rolando Garbey Garbey (19 November 1947 – 16 December 2023) was a Cuban boxer.[1] He competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category. He won an Olympic silver medal in 1968 and a bronze medal in 1976. In 1974, at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, he won the world title. Garbey was also a gold medalist at light middleweight at the Pan-American games in 1967, 1971, and 1975.
Garbey died from a cardiac arrest in Havana, on 16 December 2023, at the age of 76.[2]
Olympic results
Mexico City - 1968
- Quarterfinal: Defeated Eric Blake (Great Britain) by first-round knockout
- Semifinal: Defeated Johnny Baldwin (United States) by decision, 4-1
- Final: Lost to Boris Lagutin (Soviet Union) by decision, 0-5 (was awarded silver medal)
Munich - 1972
- Defeated Ricky Barnor (Ghana) by decision, 5-0
- Defeated Franz Csandl (Austria) by decision, 5-0
- Defeated Jae Keun-Lim (South Korea) by second-round technical knockout
- Lost to Wiesław Rudkowski (Poland) by decision, 1-4
Montreal - 1976
- Round of 32: Defeated Dashnyamyn Olzvoi (Mongolia) by third-round knockout
- Round of 16: Defeated Earl Liburd (Virgin Islands) referee stopped contest in second round
- Quarterfinal: Defeated Kalevi Kosunen (Finland) referee stopped contest in first round
- Semifinal: Lost to Tadija Kačar (Yugoslavia) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal)
References
- ^ "Rolando Garbey". Archived 3 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "El boxeo de luto: falleció Rolando Garbey, campeón mundial y medallista olímpico" [Boxing in mourning: Rolando Garbey, world champion and Olympic medalist, passes away] (in Spanish). oncubanews.com. 17 December 2023.
External links
- Record 27 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine