Andrés Aldama
Andrés Aldama Cabrera ( born April 9, 1956 in Matanzas ) is a former Cuban boxer. The southpaw was 1980 Olympic champion in the welterweight division.
Career
Andrés Aldama grew up in Matanzas where he started as a teenager with the boxes. To hedge his living he became a member of the Cuban armed forces, but was exempted from military service during his boxer 's career. He boxed as a senior in half welter or welterweight and was relatively large for these weight classes at 1.83 meters, but what earned him against some competitors range benefits. His coach was the former professional boxer Miguel Antonio Herrera.
After some successes at the national level in the juniors he left in 1976 for the first time with the seniors at important competitions positive in appearance. The Cuban championships this year, he finished behind world champion Emilio Correa Vaillant and Jose M. Pozo the third place, but won in the major boxing tournament of the Cuban boxing federation " Giraldo Cordova Cardin - " in Pinar del Río, in the light welterweight for which he had abtrainiert, before Secundino Ferrer. He opened up the chance to be able to go at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in this weight class at the start. To prepare for these games, he started at two tournaments in Europe and came up with the tournament for the " Golden Belt" in Bucharest after one defeat against Calis Trat Cuţov from Romania to 2nd place, while at a tournament in Minsk he internally in the final Soviet athlete Viktor Zverev defeated and thus won this tournament.
At the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 he won the Light Welterweight on Sabahattin Bürcü from Turkey and about Jesus Sanchez from the Dominican Republic respectively by demolition in the 2nd round, József Nagy from Hungary by T.KO id 2nd Round & about Vladimir Kolev of Bulgaria by KO id First round. In the final he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard in the United States but on points and had to settle for the silver medal.
In the years 1977-1979 and 1981 and 1982 Andrés Aldama won five Cuban champion. 1978 welterweight and 1977, 1979, 1981 and 1982 welterweight. In the final battle, he defeated Alberto Montoya case, Victor Corona, Jorge Bueno, Hilario Acea and José Luis Hernández.
In 1977 Andrés Aldama also won the title at the Central American & Caribbean Championships in Panama City in the Light Welterweight. In the final, he defeated Nicolas Garcia from Nicaragua while on points (5-0 ). In 1978 he was at the World Amateur Championship in Belgrade at the start. He won there i.d. in the light welterweight by KO 3rd round of Ildemar Paisan from Venezuela and Anwar Ssamsul from Indonesia by demolition id First round. In the quarterfinals, but he was defeated by Valery Lvov from the USSR just on points ( 2:3 judges' votes ), and therefore finished only fifth place.
1979 Aldama Andrés won the championship title at the Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He won there in the welterweight division in the final over Mike McCallum from Jamaica by demolition id 2nd round.
At the Olympic Games in 1980 Andrés Aldama started at welterweight. He proved to be the best boxer in this weight class and deservedly won the gold medal. Towards this medal he defeated Pierre Sotourney from Benin by T. KO id Round 3 Akopkochjan Israel from the USSR on points (3:2), Plamen Jankow from Bulgaria by KO id Third round and the semi-finals Karl -Heinz Krüger from the GDR on points (5-0 ). In the final, he sat Although John Mugabi of Uganda is very resistant, but the point victory 4-1 judges' votes for Andres Aldama was deserved.
After 1981 no international championships queuing, in which Andrés Aldmaa could start, he strove in 1982 to a start at the World Championships in Munich. Although he was defeated at the Cuban championship José Luis Hernández, it was this at this World Cup but preferred. Hernandez different then in Munich in the first round of.
Andrés Aldama Cabrera finished his career in 1983.