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Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
CUB

5
  
3

Competitors
  
111 in 13 sports

Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Cuban Olympic Committee

Flag bearer
  
Mijaín López (opening and closing)

Medals Ranked 16th
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 5 3 7 15

Cuba competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's nineteenth appearance in the Olympics. With the baseball's removal from the Olympic program and the absence of the nation's volleyball team for the first time, the Cuban Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1964. A total of 111 athletes, 66 men and 45 women, competed in 13 sports. There was only a single competitor in archery and table tennis.

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The Cuban team featured two defending Olympic champions: sprint hurdler Dayron Robles and Greco-Roman wrestler Mijaín López, who reprised his role to be the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Among the champions, only Lopez managed to successfully defend his Olympic title, in the men's super heavyweight division. Robles, on the other hand, missed out of the medal standings after he was disqualified in the finals. Skeet shooter Guillermo Torres, the oldest athlete of the team at age 53, became the first Cuban athlete to compete in seven Olympic Games since 1980. Other notable Cuban athletes included decathlon bronze medalist Leonel Suárez, swimmer and Pan-American games medalist Hanser García, and four-time Olympic diver José Guerra.

Cuba left London with a total of 14 medals (5 gold, 3 silver, and 6 bronze), being considered its worst Olympic Games since 1976. Four of these medals were awarded to the athletes in boxing, three in judo, and two each in track and field and in wrestling. Among the nation's medalists were heavyweight judoka Idalys Ortiz, who previously won the bronze in Beijing, flyweight boxer Robeisy Ramírez, the youngest athlete of the team at age 18, and pistol shooter Leuris Pupo, who won Cuba's first ever gold medal in his sporting discipline.

In May 2013, Yarelys Barrios awarded the bronze in the women's discus throw when Russia's Darya Pishchalnikova had been tested positive for oxandrolone and thereby stripped of her medal. As a result, Cuba's medal total has been upgraded to 15.

Archery

Cuba has qualified one archer.

Athletics

Cuban athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):

Key
  • Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
  • Q = Qualified for the next round
  • q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
  • NR = National record
  • N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  • Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
  • Men
    Track & road events
    Field events
    Combined events – Decathlon
    Women
    Track & road events
    Field events

    Boxing

    Cuba has so far qualified boxers for the following events

    Men

    Sprint

    Cuba has qualified boats for the following events

    Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

    Track

    Sprint
    Keirin
    Omnium

    Diving

    Cuba has qualified in the following events.

    Men
    Women

    Judo

    Men
    Women

    Rowing

    Cuba has qualified the following boats.

    Men
    Women

    Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

    Shooting

    Cuba has qualified four quota places in the shooting events;

    Men
    Women

    Swimming

    Cuban swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):

    Men

    Table tennis

    Cuba has qualified 1 athlete.

    Taekwondo

    Cuba has qualified 1 man and 2 women.

    Weightlifting

    Cuba has qualified 4 men.

    Wrestling

    Cuba has qualified quota places in the following events

    Key:

  • VT - Victory by Fall.
  • PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
  • PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.
  • Men's freestyle
    Men's Greco-Roman
    Women's freestyle

    References

    Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics Wikipedia