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Armando Martínez (boxer)

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Nationality
  
Cuba

Height
  
1.8 m

Martial art
  
Boxing

Sport
  
Boxing

Weight
  
71 kg

Rated at
  
Light middleweight

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Full name
  
Armando Martínez Limendu

Born
  
August 29, 1961 (age 55) (
1961-08-29
)
Majagua, Ciego de Ávila

Olympic medal
  
Boxing at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Light Middleweight

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Armando Martínez Limendu (born August 29, 1961) is a Cuban boxer. At 18 years of age he won the gold medal in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category at the 1980 Summer Olympics, beating Aleksandr Koshkyn in the final.

In 1982 he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany, this time losing to Koshkyn. He had previously won a silver medal at the 1978 World Championships.

Olympic results

  • Defeated Zygmunt Gosiewski (Poland) 5-0
  • Defeated George Kabuto (Uganda) RSC 1
  • Defeated Francisco de Jesus (Brazil) 5-0
  • Defeated Jan Franek (Czechoslovakia) RSC 2
  • Defeated Aleksandr Koshkyn (Soviet Union) 4-1
  • References

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