Adolfo Horta
Name: Adolfo Horta
Birth Name: Adolfo Horta Martínez
Hometown: Camaguey, Cuba
Birthplace: Moron, Cuba
Died: 2016-11-28 (Age:59)
Amateur Boxer: Record
Adolfo Horta (born March 10, 1957 in Camaguey) was an amateur boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the Featherweight division (-57 kg) at age 22 at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he was beaten by East Germany's Rudi Fink on points (1-4). Horta won 11 consecutive Cuban national championships between 1976 and 1986.
Two years earlier he won the world title at the second World Championships in Belgrade. He subsequently won two more world titles, first in Munich (1982), West Germany, then in Reno (1986). He died November 28, 2016
Olympic Results
1980 (as a featherweight)
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Odd Bengtsson (Sweden) 5-0
- Defeated Titi Cercel (Romania) 5-0
- Defeated Luis Pizarro (Puerto Rico) 5-0
- Defeated Krysztof Kosedowski (Poland) walk-over
- Lost to Rudi Fink (East Germany) 1-4
World amateur championships
1978 (as a bantamweight)
- Defeated Teodor Dinu (Romania) 4-1
- Defeated Raji Lateef (Nigeria) RSC 1
- Defeated Bernabe Montanez (Puerto Rico) 5-0
- Defeated Stephan Foerster (East Germany) 5-0
- Defeated Fazlija Sacirovic (Yugoslavia) 3-2
1982 (as a featherweight)
- Defeated Peter Konyegwachie (Nigeria) 5-0
- Defeated Stefan Sjoestrand (Sweden) KO 1
- Defeated Park Ki-Chui (South Korea) RSC 2
- Defeated Richard Nowakowski (East Germany) 4-1
- Defeated Rawsalyn Otgonbayar (Mongolia) 5-0
1986 (as a lightweight)
- Defeated Michele Caldarella (Italy) 5-0
- Defeated Fernando Maldonado (Puerto Rico) 3-2
- Defeated Daniel Maeran (Romania) 3-2
- Defeated Orzubek Nazarov (Soviet Union) 3-2
- Defeated Engels Pedroza (Venezuela) 3-2