- Orlando Martínez
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Orlando Martínez Personal information Full name Orlando Martínez Romero Nationality 
CubaBorn September 2, 1944 Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) Weight 54 kilograms (120 lb) Sport Sport Boxing Rated at Bantamweight Medal recordOlympic Games Gold 1972 Munich Bantamweight Pan American Games Gold 1975 Mexico City Bantamweight Orlando Martínez (born September 2, 1944)[1] is a former bantamweight boxer from Cuba, who won the gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Three years later he captured the gold at the 1975 Pan American Games. Orlando was awarded a hotly disputed 3-2 split decision over Great Britain's George Turpin in the 1972 Munich Olympics semi final, before coasting to a comfortable points win over future World Bantamweight Champion Alfonzo Zamora in the final to win the Gold medal.
Olympic results
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Maung Win (Burma) 4-1
- Defeated Michael Dowling (Ireland) 3-2
- Defeated Ferry Moniaga (Indonesia) 5-0
- Defeated George Turpin (Great Britain) 3-2
- Defeated Alfonso Zamora (Mexico) 5-0
- ^ Cuban sources report his year of birth: 1946
External links
- profile (Spanish)
- profile (Spanish)
- Olympic profile
Olympic Boxing Champions in Men's Bantamweight 1904: 105-115 lb (47.6-52.2 kg), 1908: - 116 lb (52.6 kg), 1920-1928: 112-118 lb (50.8-53.5 kg), 1932+1936: 112-119 lb (50.8-54.0 kg), 1948-2008: 51-54 kg1904: Oliver Kirk (USA) • 1908: Henry Thomas (GBR) • 1920: Clarence Walker (RSA) • 1924: William Smith (RSA) • 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA) • 1932: Horace Gwynne (CAN) • 1936: Ulderico Sergo (ITA) • 1948: Tibor Csík (HUN) • 1952: Pentti Hämäläinen (FIN) • 1956: Wolfgang Behrendt (EUA) • 1960: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) • 1964: Takao Sakurai (JPN) • 1968: Valerian Sokolov (URS) • 1972: Orlando Martínez (CUB) • 1976: Gu Yong-Ju (PRK) • 1980: Juan Hernández (CUB) • 1984: Maurizio Stecca (ITA) • 1988: Kennedy McKinney (USA) • 1992: Joel Casamayor (CUB) • 1996: István Kovács (HUN) • 2000 - 2004: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) • 2008: Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan (MGL)
Pan American Boxing Champions in Men's Bantamweight 1951 – 2007: up to 54 kg1951: Ricardo González (ARG) | 1955: Salvador Enriquez (VEN) | 1959: Waldo Claudiano (BRA) | 1963: Abel Almaraz (ARG) | 1967: Juvencio Martínez (MEX) | 1971: Pedro Flores (MEX) | 1975: Orlando Martínez (CUB) | 1979: Jackie Beard (USA) | 1983: Manuel Vilchez (VEN) | 1987: Manuel Martínez (CUB) | 1991: Enrique Carrion (CUB) | 1995: Juan Despaigne (CUB) | 1999: Gerald Tucker (USA) | 2003: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) | 2007: Carlos Cuadras (MEX)Categories:- 1944 births
- Cuban boxers
- Olympic boxers of Cuba
- Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
- Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Cuban Olympic medalist stubs
- Cuban boxing biography stubs
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