Cuba at the 1992 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	CUB
Nocname:	Cuban Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1992
Location:	Barcelona
Competitors:	176 (126 men and 50 women)
Sports:	16
Flagbearer:	Héctor Milián
Rank:	5
Gold:	14
Silver:	6
Bronze:	11
Appearances:	auto

Cuba competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after boycotting both the 1984 Games and the 1988 Games. 176 competitors, 126 men and 50 women, took part in 90 events in 16 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				28 July
				29 July
				2 August
				3 August
	Cuba national baseball team			5 August
				7 August
	Cuba women's national volleyball team			7 August
				8 August
				8 August
				8 August
				8 August
				9 August
				9 August
				9 August
				27 July
				30 July
				5 August
				8 August
				8 August
				9 August
				29 July
				30 July
				31 July
				31 July
				1 August
				2 August
				3 August
				5 August
				7 August
				8 August
				8 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[2]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	17	17	34
Baseball	20	–	20
Basketball	0	12	12
Boxing	12	–	12
Canoeing	5	0	5
Cycling	4	0	4
Fencing	5	0	5
Judo	5	7	12
Rowing	3	0	3
Shooting	3	2	5
Swimming	2	0	2
Table tennis	2	2	4
Volleyball	12	10	22
Water polo	13	–	13
Weightlifting	8	–	8
Wrestling	15	–	15
Total	126	50	176

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

• • • Lázaro Martínez, Héctor Herrera, Norberto Téllez, and Roberto Hernández Heat — 2:59.13
  • Final — 2:59.51 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's Marathon

• Alberto Cuba — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Long Jump

• Iván Pedroso
  • Qualification — 8.07 m
  • Final — 8.11 m (→ 4th place)
• Jaime Jefferson
  • Qualification — 8.09 m
  • Final — 8.08 m (→ 5th place)

Men's Triple Jump

• Yoelvis Quesada
  • Qualification — 17.21 m
  • Final — 17.18 m (→ 6th place)

Men's Discus Throw

• • • Roberto Moya Qualification — 62.06 m
  • Final — 64.12 m (→ Bronze Medal)
    • Juan Martínez Qualification — 60.34 m
  • Final — 62.64 m (→ 6th place)

Women's 800 metres

• Ana Fidelia Quirot
  • Heat — 1:59.06
  • Semifinal — 2:00.86
  • Final — 1:56.80 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's Discus Throw

• • • Maritza Marten Qualification — 65.02m
  • Final — 70.06m (→ Gold Medal)
    • Hilda Ramos Qualification — 62.82m
  • Final — 63.80m (→ 6th place)
    • Bárbara Hechavarría Qualification — 60.22m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• • • Ioamnet Quintero Qualification — 1.92 m
  • Final — 1.97 m (→ Bronze Medal)
    • Silvia Costa Qualification — 1.92 m
  • Final — 1.94 m (→ 5th place)

Baseball

See main article: Baseball at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition:

• Cuba – Gold Medal (9–0)

Team Roster

• Omar Ajete
• Rolando Arrojo
• José Raúl Delgado
• Giorge Diaz
• José Estrada González
• Osvaldo Fernández
• Lourdes Gourriel
• Alberto Hernández
• Orlando Hernández
• Orestes Kindelán
• Omar Linares
• Germán Mesa
• Víctor Mesa
• Antonio Pacheco
• Juan Padilla
• Juan Pérez
• Luis Ulacia
• Ermidelio Urrutia
• Jorge Valdés
• Lázaro Vargas

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Women's team competition

• Preliminary round (group A)
  • Defeated Unified Team (91–89)
  • Defeated Brazil (95–88)
  • Defeated Italy (60–53)
• Semifinals
  • Lost to PR China (70–109)
• Bronze Medal Match
  • Lost to United States (74–88) → 4th place
• Team Roster
  • Andrea Borrell
  • Ana Hernández
  • Olga Vigil
  • Grisel Herrera
  • Biosotis Lagnó
  • Yudith Águila
  • María León
  • Yamilé Martínez
  • Dalia Henry
  • Liset Castillo
  • Regla Hernández
  • Milayda Enríquez
• Head coach: Manuel Pérez

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Rogelio Marcelo → Gold Medal
  • First round – Defeated Mfamasibili Mnisi (SWZ), RSC-3
  • Second round – Defeated Erdenentsogt Tsogtjargal (MGL), 14:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Rafael Lozano (ESP), 11:3
  • Semifinals – Defeated Roel Velasco (PHI), RSCH-1
  • Final – Defeated Daniel Petrov (BUL), 20:10

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Raúl González → Silver Medal
  • First round – Defeated Leszek Olszewski (POL), 15:7
  • Second round – Defeated Moses Malagu (NGR), RSC-2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated David Serradas (VEN), 14:7
  • Semifinals – Defeated Timothy Austin (USA) RSC-1
  • Final – Lost to Choi Chol-Su (PRK), 2:12

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Joel Casamayor → Gold Medal
  • First round – Defeated Devarajan Venkatesan (IND), 13:7
  • Second round – Defeated Riadh Klai (TUN), 16:11
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Roberto Jalnaiz (PHI), KO-1
  • Semifinals – Defeated Mohamed Achik (MAR), AB-1
  • Final – Defeated Wayne McCullough (IRL), 16:8

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Eddy Suarez
  • First round – Defeated Lee Chil-Gun (PRK), 20:5
  • Second round – Defeated Mohamed Soltani (TUN), RSC-2 (02:53)
  • Quarterfinals – Lost to Faustino Reyes (ESP), 7:17

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Julio González Valladares
  • First round – Lost to Tontcho Tontchev (BUL), 12:14

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Héctor Vinent → Gold Medal
  • First round – Defeated Edwin Cassiani (COL), 27:4
  • Second round – Defeated Andreas Zülow (GER), 14:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Oleg Nikolaev (URS), 26:3
  • Semifinals – Defeated Jyri Kjall (FIN), 13:3
  • Final – Defeated Mark Leduc (CAN), 11:1

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Juan Hernández Sierra → Silver Medal
  • First round – Defeated Said Bennajem (FRA), 6:0
  • Second round – Defeated Jun Jin-Chul (KOR), RSC-2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Søren Antman (SWE), RSC-2
  • Semifinals – Defeated Aníbal Acevedo (PUR), 11:2
  • Final – Lost to Michael Carruth (IRL), 10:13

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Juan Carlos Lemus → Gold Medal
  • First round – Defeated Arkadiy Topayev (EUN), 11:0
  • Second round – Defeated Markus Beyer (GER), RSC-1
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Igors Saplavskis (LAT), 12:2
  • Semifinals – Defeated György Mizsei (HUN), 10:2
  • Final – Defeated Orhan Delibaş (NED), 6:1

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Ariel Hernández → Gold Medal
  • First round – Defeated Joseph Lareya (GHA), 6:0
  • Second round – Defeated Gilberto Brown (ISV), 13:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Sven Ottke (GER), 14:6
  • Semifinals – Defeated Lee Seung-Bae (KOR), 14:1
  • Final – Defeated Chris Byrd (USA), 12:7

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

• Angel Espinosa
  • First round – Defeated Mehmet Gürgen (TUR), RSC-3
  • Second round – Defeated Roberto Castelli (ITA), RSC-1
  • Quarterfinals – Lost to Wojciech Bartnik (POL), 3:9

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

• Félix Savón → Gold Medal
  • First round – Defeated Krysztof Rojek (POL), RSC-2
  • Second round – Defeated Bert Teuchiert (GER), 11:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Danell Nicholson (USA), 13:11
  • Semifinals – Defeated Arnold Vanderlyde (NED), 23:3
  • Final – Defeated David Izonritei (NGR), 14:1

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

• Roberto Balado → Gold Medal
  • First round – Bye
  • Second round – Defeated Tom Glesby (CAN), 16:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Larry Donald (USA), 10:4
  • Semifinals – Defeated Brian Nielsen (DEN), 15:1
  • Final – Defeated Richard Igbineghu (NGR), 13:2

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Four male cyclists represented Cuba in 1992.

Men's team pursuit

• Conrado Cabrera
  • • Eugenio Castro Noël de la Cruz Raúl Domínguez

Men's points race

• Conrado Cabrera

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Five male fencers represented Cuba in 1992.

Men's foil

• Elvis Gregory
• Guillermo Betancourt
• Oscar García
• Alain Julian

Men's team foil

• Elvis Gregory, Guillermo Betancourt, Oscar García, Tulio Díaz, Hermenegildo García

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Men's Half-Lightweight

• Israel Hernández

Men's Lightweight

• Ignacio Sayu

Men's Middleweight

• Andrés Franco

Men's Half-Heavyweight

• Belarmino Salgado

Men's Heavyweight

• Frank Moreno

Women's Extra-Lightweight

• Amarilis Savón

Women's Half-Lightweight

• Legna Verdecia

Women's Lightweight

• Driulys González

Women's Half-Middleweight

• Ileana Beltrán

Women's Middleweight

• Odalis Revé

Women's Half-Heavyweight

• Niurka Moreno

Women's Heavyweight

• Estela Rodríguez

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Men's 100m Backstroke

• Rodolfo Falcón
  • Heat – 55.99
  • Final – 55.76 (→ 7th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Rodolfo Falcón
  • Heat – 2:00.52
  • B-Final – 2:00.22 (→ 9th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Mario González
  • Heat – 1:03.53 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Mario González
  • Heat – 2:16.45 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (group B)
  • Defeated Netherlands (3–1)
  • Defeated Algeria (3–0)
  • Defeated Unified Team (3–1)
  • Lost to Brazil (1–3)
  • Defeated South Korea (3–0)
• Quarterfinals
  • Defeated Spain (3–0)
• Semifinals
  • Lost to Netherlands (0–3)
• Bronze Medal Match
  • Lost to United States (1–3) → Fourth place
• Team Roster
  • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Félix Millán Freddy Brooks Idalberto Valdes Ihosvany Hernández Joël Despaigne Lazaro Beltran Lazaro Marin Nicolas Vives
      • Osvaldo Hernández Raúl Diago
      • Rodolfo Sánchez Abel Sarmientos

Women's team competition

• Preliminary round (group B)
  • Defeated PR China (3–1)
  • Defeated Brazil (3–1)
  • Defeated Netherlands (3–0)
• Semifinals
  • Defeated United States (3–2)
• Final
  • Defeated Unified Team (3–1) → Gold Medal
• Team Roster
  • Regla Bell
  • Mercedes Calderón
  • Magalys Carvajal
  • Marlenys Costa
    • • Ana Ibis Fernandez Idalmis Gato
  • Lilia Izquierdo
  • Norka Latamblet
  • Mireya Luis
    • • Raisa O'Farrill Tania Ortiz
  • Regla Torres
• Head coach: Eugenio Lafita

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Men's team competition

• Preliminary round (group B)
  • Defeated Greece (10–9)
  • Lost to Hungary (11–12)
  • Lost to Italy (8–11)
  • Lost to the Netherlands (9–11)
  • Lost to Spain (10–12)
• Classification Matches
  • Lost to Australia (5–7)
  • Lost to Germany (6–10) → 8th place
• Team Roster
  • Bárbaro Diaz
    • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Juan Barreras Norge Blay Pablo Cuesta Jorge Del Valle Marcelo Derauville Lazaro Fernández Ernesto García Juan Hernández Olivera Juan Hernández Silveira Guillermo Martínez Iván Pérez José Ramos

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Men's Middleweight

• Pablo Lara
• Raúl Mora

Men's Light-Heavyweight

• Lino Elias
• José Ernesto Heredia

Men's Middle-Heavyweight

• Emilio Lara

Men's Heavyweight II

• Flavio Villavicencio
• Maurys Charón

Men's Super-Heavyweight

• Ernesto Aguero

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

See also

• Cuba at the 1991 Pan American Games

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cuba at the 1992 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043808/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/CUB/summer/1992/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2011-12-23 . sports-reference.com.
2. https://www.olympedia.org/countries/CUB/editions/23 Cuba at the 1992 Summer Olympics