Rogelio Marcelo
Cuban boxer (born 1965)
Rogelio Marcelo (front row, second from right) in 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Rogelio Marcelo García | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Cuban | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1965-06-11) June 11, 1965 (age 59) Guantánamo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Light Flyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rogelio Marcelo García (born June 11, 1965 in Guantánamo) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the light flyweight (– 48 kg) division during the early 1990s.
Marcelo lost in 1989 and 1991 at the world championships finals to American winner Eric Griffin but represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where he won the gold medal (Griffin lost to Rafael Lozano 5-6 ). A year earlier, at the Pan Am Games in Havana, Cuba, he had triumphed in the same division.
Olympic results
- Defeated Mfamasibili Mnisi (Swaziland) RSC 3 (0:55)
- Defeated Erdenentsogt Tsogtjargal (Mongolia) 14-2
- Defeated Rafael Lozano (Spain) 11-3
- Defeated Roel Velasco (Philippines) RSC 1 (1:36)
- Defeated Daniel Bojinov (Bulgaria) 24-10
References
- databaseOlympics.com
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1968 – 2008: up to 48 kg, 2012–2016: up to 49 kg
- 1968: Francisco Rodríguez (VEN)
- 1972: György Gedó (HUN)
- 1976: Jorge Hernández (CUB)
- 1980: Shamil Sabirov (URS)
- 1984: Paul Gonzales (USA)
- 1988: Ivailo Marinov (BUL)
- 1992: Rogelio Marcelo (CUB)
- 1996: Daniel Petrov (BUL)
- 2000: Brahim Asloum (FRA)
- 2004: Yan Bartelemí (CUB)
- 2008: Zou Shiming (CHN)
- 2012: Zou Shiming (CHN)
- 2016: Hasanboy Dusmatov (UZB)
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