- Daniel Núñez
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Medal record Competitor for Cuba Men's weightlifting Olympic Games Gold 1980 Moscow -56 kg World Championships Gold 1978 Gettysburg -56 kg Gold 1980 Moscow -56 kg Daniel Núñez (born 12 September 1958) is a Cuban weightlifter.
He won a gold medal in the bantamweight class at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[1]
At the Pan American Games in 1983 Núñez and three other lifters were stripped of their medals for use of anabolic steroids.[2]
References
- ^ "Profile: Daniel Núñez". sports-reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/nu/daniel-nunez-1.html. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
- ^ "4 lifters lose medals for use of steroids". The New York Times. 23 August 1983. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B03E4D81738F930A1575BC0A965948260. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
1948–1968: –56 kg, 1972–1992: 52–56 kg, 1996: 54–59 kg, 2000-: -56 kg1948: Joseph DePietro • 1952: Ivan Udodov • 1956: Charles Vinci • 1960: Charles Vinci • 1964: Aleksey Vakhonin • 1968: Mohammad Nassiri • 1972: Imre Földi • 1976: Norair Nurikyan • 1980: Daniel Núñez • 1984: Wu Shude • 1988: Oksen Mirzoyan • 1992: Chun Byung-Kwan • 1996: Tang Lingsheng • 2000: Halil Mutlu • 2004: Halil Mutlu • 2008: Long QingquanCategories:- 1958 births
- Living people
- Cuban weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters of Cuba
- Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Weightlifting biography stubs
- Cuban Olympic medalist stubs
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