Armando Martínez

Name: Armando Martinez
Birth Name: Armando Martínez Limendu
Birthplace: Majagua, Cuba
Amateur Boxer: Record

Armando Martinez (Born: August 9, 1961) was a Cuban amateur boxer who won the Light Middleweight gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Martinez defeated Aleksandr Koshkyn of the Soviet Union in the final.

In 1982 he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany, this time losing to Koshkyn.

Olympic Results

1980 (as a Light middleweight)

• Defeated Zygmunt Gosiewski (Poland) 5-0
• Defeated George Kabuto (Uganda) RSC 1
• Defeated Francisco de Jesus (Brazil) 5-0
• Defeated Jan Franek (Czechoslovakia) RSC 2
• Defeated Aleksandr Koshkyn (Soviet Union) 4-1

World amateur championships results

1982 (as a Light middleweight)

• Defeated Srba Stankovic (Yugoslavia) 5-0
• Defeated Detlef Kaestner (East Germany) 5-0
• Defeated Sandor Hranek (Hungary) 5-0
• Lost to Aleksandr Koshkyn (Soviet Union) 2-3 (final)