Adolfo Horta
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| Nickname | El hombre del boxeo total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Adolfo Horta Martínez 3 October 1957 San Lorenzo, Santiago de Cuba Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 November 2016 (aged 59) Camagüey, Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | Bantamweight Featherweight Lightweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adolfo Horta Martínez (3 October 1957 – 28 November 2016) was a Cuban amateur boxer, who won the silver medal in the Men's Featherweight division (– 57 kg) at age 22 at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[1] He was beaten by East Germany's Rudi Fink on points (1-4).[2] Horta won eleven consecutive national championships and three gold medals in the World Amateur Boxing Championships in different weight classes, which appears to have been a unique achievement, but he would never return to the Olympics, as Cuba boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics.[3]
1980 Olympic results
- Round of 64: bye
- Round of 32: Odd Bengtsson (Sweden) by decision, 5-0
- Round of 16: Titi Cercel (Romania) by decision, 5-0
- Quarterfinal: Defeated Luis Pizarro (Puerto Rico) by decision, 5-0
- Semifinal: Defeated Krysztof Kosedowski (Poland) by walkover
- Final: Lost to Rudi Fink (East Germany) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded silver medal)
References
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Adolfo Horta". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ↑ "Falleció Adolfo Horta, el hombre del boxeo total" [Adolfo Horta, the Man of Total Boxing, Has Passed Away]. Adelante.cu (in Spanish). 29 November 2016.
- ↑ Leavy, Jane; Bailey, Sandra (24 May 1984). "Cuba Joins Boycott of Olympics". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
Further reading
- Amateur Record at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 October 2009)
External links
- Boxing record for Adolfo Horta from BoxRec (registration required)
- Adolfo Horta at Olympics.com
- Adolfo Horta at Olympedia
- Adolfo Horta at InterSportStats
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Categories:
- 1957 births
- 2016 deaths
- Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba Province
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Olympic boxers for Cuba
- Boxers at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Cuba
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Cuban male boxers
- IBA Men's World Boxing Championships medalists
- Pan American Games gold medalists in boxing
- Bantamweight boxers
- Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Cuban sportsmen
- Cuban boxing biography stubs
- Cuban Olympic medalist stubs