Armando MartÃnez
Armando Martínez Limendu ( born August 29, 1961 in Majagua, Ciego de Ávila ) is a former Cuban boxer. 1980, it was Olympic champion in the light middleweight.
Career
Armando Martínez began as a teenager with the boxes. He pointed soon so good performances that he was still taken as a junior in the Cuban national team, the boxer. However, he was released at age 18 also a member of the Cuban armed forces, the military was for boxing training. He was a 1.80 m large, technically sophisticated boxer who fought in the normal display (left arm ).
Already at the age of 18 he was in the 1979 Cuban Vice- champion in the light welterweight division. In the final of that tournament he defeated José Aguilar Pulsar on points. In the same year he was employed in a meet against the United States in Havana in the Light Middleweight, two weight classes higher than the Cuban championship and it came to a point victory over Jeff Stoudemire. In 1979, he came to a tournament to Europe. He won this Grand Prix Usti nad Labem in the welterweight division with a win in the final over the Soviet athletes Yonov.
1980 Armando Martínez became Cuban champion for the first time. In the light welterweight he defeated in the finals José Luis Hernández on points. In another trip to Europe he succeeded in Ústí nad Labem in light middleweight turn a tournament victory, while he ( 2:3 judge votes) against Roland Converts had to suffer from the GDR at the 20th Honved Cup in Budapest, surprisingly, in the final battle a concise point defeat. Although he took after the " Giraldo Cordova Cardin Tournament of the Cuban boxing federation in Holguín in the light middleweight behind his compatriots Manuel Cordero and Alfonso Semanat only the third place, he was still employed at the Olympic Games in Moscow. He justified this trust and was, with a points victory over Zygmunt Gosiewski, Poland (5-0 ), a demolition victory id first round of George Kabuto, Uganda, one point victory over Francisco de Jesus, Brazil, a demolition victory id second round of Ján Franek CSSR & a points victory over Alexander Koshkin, USSR ( 4:1) Olympic champion.
1981 had Armando Martínez at the World Cup in Montreal in the light middleweight after beating Percy Rackley from Australia, Mikhail Tachow from Bulgaria and U Jin Choi, South Korea in the final battle against the Canadians Shawn O'Sullivan suffered a surprising point defeat and was thereby only on the 2. place. For this he won at the 16th championship of the armed forces of the Warsaw Pact countries in Pécs id with a demolition victory First round of the finals on Niculae Ciobaru from Romania.
1982 Armando Martínez won a points victory in the final over Julio Martínez Quintana (5-0 ) its second Cuban champion. The same boxer he also defeated in the finals of " Giraldo Cordova Cardin - " tournament in Guantánamo. He was also winner of the 1982 Central American & Caribbean Championships in Havana in the light middleweight, where he defeated on points in the final José Luis Steven from Venezuela. The highlight of 1982 was for Armando Martínez but attendance at the World Championships in Munich. He defeated there in the light middleweight Srba Stankovis from Yugoslavia, Detlef Kästner from the GDR and Sandor Hranek from Czechoslovakia on points. In the semifinals, he came to a noncombat victory because Mikhail Tachow could not compete against him because of an injury. In the final, then it came to the fight against Alexander Koshkin for revenge of the Olympic Games 1980. Koshkin This time was the happier, because he was awarded a 3-2 point victory. Armando Martínez, therefore, had to be content with the title of Vice - World Champion.
After 1982 Armando Martínez was never more the shape of the period 1980 to 1982. On the podium with a Cuban championship he came only in 1985, where he finished 3rd behind Ángel Espinosa and Orestes Solano, and 1989, where he in final against his old rival José Luis Hernández subject. In 1984, he had, however, celebrated a tournament victory at the " Giraldo Cordova Cardin - " tournament in Sancti Spiritus in the light middleweight, where he auspunktete in the final Orestes Solano. A start in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles did not come for him, but the question because Cuba boycotted the games for political reasons.
The last peak results he achieved were two third places at the " Giraldo Cordova Cardin - " tournaments in 1988 in Las Tunas and 1989 in Havana in light middleweight. Both times were placed while José Guzmán and José Luis Hernández before him.
International success
Countries fighting
Cuban Championships
Swell
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