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Taismary Aguero was born and raised in Cuba earlier than changing into a naturalized Italian citizen. She is among the most well-known volleyball gamers within the 2000s. Beneath the arms of Taismary Aguero, Cuba received the gold medal in volleyball within the 2000 Olympic Video games in Australia. Nevertheless, she escaped to Italy in 2001 and having received a nationwide staff call-up grew to become the primary naturalized volleyball participant to attain for Italy. Maybe her best triumph was captaining her new nation to their first World Cup triumph in Tokyo, Japan, in 2007. Sarcastically, Italy, led by the superb play of Taismary Aguero, defeated Cuba 3-0 (27-25, 25-19, 25-16) within the finals.
Cuba didn’t despatched a boxing staff to the 1985 World Cup in Seoul, South Korea’s capital. Why? As a result of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz didn’t acknowledge South Korea as an impartial and sovereign nation. There have been many well-known boxers who didn’t go to Korea: Juan Torres Odelin, Pedro Orlando Reyes, Arnaldo Mesa Borell, Jesus Sollet Tomasen, Adolfo Horta Martinez, Eduardo Correa Ferrer, Candelario Duvergel Odelin, Angel Espinoza Capo, Julio Quintana Martinez, Pablo Romero Hernandez and Teofilo Stevenson Lawrence.
Ramon Fonst Segundo has received extra Olympic gold medals than Teofilo Stevenson (boxing), Alberto Juantorena Hazard (observe and subject), Mireya Luis Hernandez (volleyball) and Felix Savon Fabre (boxing).Who’s he? Ramon Fonst was a well-known fencer within the 1900s, Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties.
He was born right into a sports-oriented household within the Cuban capital of Havana on August 31, 1883. His father was a sportsman within the 1870s and Eighties. Like Jose Raul Capablanca (chess) and Eligio Sardinas Montalvo (boxing), he was an athlete who at all times competed with love for Cuba.
Ramón Fonst obtained 125 medals in competitions held in Europe, Latin America and North America. Within the 1900 Olympic Video games in France, Ramon received the gold medal within the epee occasion, and within the 1904 Summer season Olympics in the USA, he received three gold medals. In 1926, he received two gold medals on the Central American and Caribbean Video games in Mexico Metropolis. Definitely, Ramon Fonst is the best Latin American athlete of the twentieth century.
Within the early Nineties, massive variety of athletes started leaving their nation due to poor financial circumstances there and extreme therapy by the key police. Many sought refuge in the USA, Spain and Canada.
Cuba despatched 2 athletes to the 2003 World College Video games, which had been held in Daegu, South Korea. They had been Yordanis Arencibia and Yurileidys Lupetey ( judo).
The 1987 World Junior Volleyball Championship was boycotted by Cuba. The place: South Korea. For the primary time since 1978, volleyball gamers from Cuba didn’t half in an Olympic event. The staff Cuban didn’t defend its world title it had received in Rome two years earlier than.
Cuba despatched 120 athletes to the 1973 World Scholar Video games, which had been held in Moscow, USSR (at present Russia).The Cuban contingent participated in 9 Olympic sports activities: basketball, athletics, fencing, gymnastics,volleyball, waterpolo, diving, tennis and wrestling. The most effective athlete was Alberto Juantorena, who received a gold medal within the males’s 400 meters.
The Second Baseball World Cup was performed in 1939 in Cuba. Three groups took half and the hosts beat Nicaragua within the last in Havana.
In 2006, Osmany Juantorena Portuondo was the 18th Cuban athlete to be disqualified for medicine. He’s Alberto Juantorena’s grandson.
The Cuban dictatorship restricts the sports activities individuals’s contacts with non-allies nations (particularly South Korea, Poland, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Hungary and the Czech Republic). It permits few Cuban athletes to journey exterior the nation.
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Like Alexandre Alekhine (France), Bobby Fischer (USA) and Garry Gasparov (Russia), Jose Raul Capablanca y Graupera is taken into account by consultants as probably the most necessary chess gamers of the 20th century. He received the title of world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
The place was Jose Capablanca born? He was born on November 19, 1888, in Havana.
The issue of unlawful drug utilization amongst Cuban athletes closed the competitors within the 1983 Pan American Video games in Caracas, the capital metropolis of Venezuela. Probably the most notable disqualification was Cuban weighlifter Daniel Nunez, who had received a gold medal on the 1980 Olympic Video games in Moscow, URSS. He was voted athlete of the yr for 1982 by Prensa Latina.
Jorge Enrico Blanco was one of many Cuba’s finest identified and well-loved boxers. Why? In 1967, he received the Pan American light-weight title.
Within the Olympic Video games of 1904, the Cuban fencing staff received 8 medals (3 golds, 2 silvers and three bronzes).
Maria Teresa Mora Iturralde was a well-known chess participant. In 1922, she received the Nationwide Chess Championship of Cuba.
From 1954 to 1968, Bertha Diaz received 258 gold medals. On the Pan American Video games in 1955, she received the 60-meter dash and certified for the 1956 Olympic Video games. Sadly, she escaped from Cuba within the Sixties when it grew to become a communist dictatorship. In 1956, she set a brand new Pan American document of 11.20 seconds within the 80-meter hurdles.
In February 1950, Rafael Emilio Fortun Chacon set a brand new Cuban and world document within the 100-meter dash on the Central American and Caribbean Video games in Guatemala Metropolis.He was born on Agust 5, 1919, in Camaguey, Cuba.
Manuel Sanguily grew to become the primary Cuban swimmer to categorise within the finals on the Olympic Video games, the place he ended seventeenth on this planet in 200-meter breaststroke model competitors in Australia in 1956.
The Cuban volleyball staff is a catastrophe. Why? As a result of greater than 14 volleyball gamers sought political asylum in Europe and Puerto Rico (2001-2007). They included: Raydel Poey, Yasser Portuondo, Javier Gonzalez, Javier Brito, Maikel Salas, Yosleider Cala, Osvaldo Hernandez, Dennis Angel, Alexis Battle, Laseer Romero, Ramon Gato, Jorge Luis Hernandez, Ihosvany Hernandez and Leonel Marshall.
