Rolando Garbey Garbey (born November 19, 1947 in Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba

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Cuba

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Boxing

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. 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

1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships

The Men's 1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Havana, Cuba from August 17 to 30. The first edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA. A total number of 274 boxers...

 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.

Olympic results

1968

• Defeated Eric Blake (Great Britain) KO 1 (quarterfinal)
• Defeated Johnny Baldwin
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   (United States) 4-1
• Lost to Boris Lagutin
  Boris Lagutin
  Boris Nikolayevich Lagutin was possibly the most celebrated of Soviet boxers. During his career as a boxer, he has won 241 fights and lost only 11. He won medals in three Olympic Games, including two golds, in 1964 and 1968. Lagutin also won at European championships in 1961 and 1963 and at USSR...
  
   (Soviet Union) 0-5

1972

• Defeated Ricky Barnor (Ghana) 5-0
• Defeated Franz Csandl (Austria) 5-0
• Defeated Jae Keun-Lim (South Korea) TKO 2
• Lost to Wiesław Rudkowski (Poland) 1-4

1976

• Defeated Dashnian Olzwoi (Mongolia) KO 3
• Defeated Earl Liburd (Virgin Islands) RSC 2
• Defeated Kalevi Kosunen (Finland) RSC 1
• Lost to Tadija Kačar
  Tadija Kacar
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  (Yugoslavia) 1-4