Andrés Aldama
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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Aldama and the second or maternal family name is Cabrera.
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| Full name | Andrés Aldama Cabrera | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba |
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| Born | April 9, 1956 Matanzas, Matanzas Province |
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| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kilograms (140 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||||||
| Rated at | Welterweight | |||||||||||||||
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Andrés Aldama Cabrera (born April 9, 1956) was a Cuban boxer, who won the light welterweight silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the Welterweight gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Aldama defeated John Mugabi to win the 1980 medal, and lost to Sugar Ray Leonard to capture the 1976 medal. In 1979 he won a gold medal at the Pan American Games.
[edit] Olympic results
1976
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Sabahattin Bürçü (Turkey) RSC 2
- Defeated Jesus Sánchez (Dominican Republic) RSC 2
- Defeated József Nagy (Hungary) TKO 2
- Defeated Vladimir Kolev (Bulgaria) KO 1
- Lost to Sugar Ray Leonard (United States) 0-5
1980
- Defeated Pierre Sotoumey (Benin) TKO 3
- Defeated Israel Akopkokhyan (Soviet Union) 3-2
- Defeated Plamen Yankov (Bulgaria) KO 3
- Defeated Karl-Heinz Krüger (East Germany) 5-0
- Defeated John Mugabi (Uganda) 4-1
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