Daniel Núñez

Daniel Núñez ( born September 12, 1958 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a former Cuban weightlifter and Olympic champion.

Career

Nunez international career began at the age of 17 years, when it was first used for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in the national team. He scored in the flyweight 52 kg 215.0 kg ( 92.5 / 122.5 kg ) in a duel and was with this power roller. During the World Cup 1977 in Stuttgart, he moved to bantamweight to 56 kg. Here he immediately won gold in the snatch. In the duel ranged 242.5 kg ( 112.5 / 130.0 kg ) but only for sixth place. The winner was the Japanese Jiro Hosotani with 252.5 kg.

However, in the World Championships 1978 in Gettysburg, he could also come up with a good performance in pushing, and won with 260.0 kg ( 117.5 / 142.5 kg ) his first world championship title in a duel. A year later he won the Pan American Championships Bantamweight World Cup 1979 in Salonika, he joined with 260.0 kg ( 115.0 / 145.0 kg ) in fourth from.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow Nunez increased its capacity to 275.0 kg ( 125.0 / 150.0 kg ) and thus won gold before Jurik Sarkisian 270.0 kg, and Tadeusz Dembonczyk with 265.0 kg. The games at the same time represented the World Championships for the Olympic year, so Nunez also won the world title in the snatch and in a duel, in pushing he took second place.

With the start of the new Olympics Nunez joined the World Cup in 1981 in Lille featherweight to 60 kg. With 135.0 kg in the snatch he won another world title, and jerk he was with 167.5 kg World Cup champions and the thus obtained 302.5 kg in single combat placed him only because of the higher body weight behind Beloslaw Manolow, who also 302.5 kg lifted. His second world championship in the new class in 1982 in Ljubljana, he finished with 295.0 kg ( 132.5 / 162.5 kg ) third behind Sarkisian with 302.5 kg and 300.0 kg with Andreas Behm.

At the Pan American Championships in August 1983 Nunez tested positive for anabolic steroids and went after suspension only again at the World Championships in 1985 in Södertälje on. Although he in a duel ( 125.0 / 157.5 kg ) could well build on his old services with 282.5 kg and finished fourth here, put this international competition his last dar. winner of this World Cup was the Bulgarian Naim Suleymanoglu with 322.5 kg, which now until 1996 dominated the featherweight.

Nunez set several world records in the bantam and featherweight during his career. For the most part it was world records in his best discipline, the tearing, which really did not break two records in a duel.

Personal best

• Tear: 137.5 kg in class up to 60 kg in 1982 in Kastrup
• Launched: 167.5 kg in class up to 60 kg in 1981 at the World Championships in Lille
• Duel: 302.5 kg in class up to 60 kg in 1981 at the World Championships in Lille