Ramón Gato

Ramón Gato
Personal information
Full nameRamón Ismael Gato Moya
Born (1973-11-16) 16 November 1973
Camagüey, Cuba
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Number12
National team
1994–2001 Cuba
Honours
Men's volleyball
Representing  Cuba
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place1998 JapanTeam
World League
Gold medal – first place1998 Milan
Silver medal – second place1997 Moscow
World Grand Champions Cup
Gold medal – first place2001 JapanTeam
Bronze medal – third place1997 Japan
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place1995 Mar del PlataTeam
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold medal – first place1998 MaracaiboTeam

Ramón Gato (born 16 November 1973) is a Cuban former volleyball player who played for the Cuban men's national volleyball team. Gato competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, finishing seventh.[1] He won bronze medals with the Cuban team at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata and the 1998 FIVB World Championship in Japan.[2]

2001 Defection

In 2001, Gato was one of six players on the Cuban men's national volleyball team to leave a hotel they stayed at in Flanders for a tournament, and from there rode a train to Italy for political asylum.[3] The other players were Leonel Marshall, Jorge Luis Hernández, Ihosvany Hernández, Ángel Dennis, and Yasser Romero.[3] Once they were granted asylum in Italy, this group was referred to as "the defectors".[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cuban volleyball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Ramón Gato". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 "The Defectors a Decade Later". Volleywood.net. 30 December 2011. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.