Rolando Garbey

Name: Rolando Garbey
Birth Name: Rolando Garbey Garbey
Hometown: Cuba
Birthplace: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Died: 2023-12-16 (Age:76)
Amateur Boxer: Record

Rolando Garbey Garbey (born November 19, 1947 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban boxer who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category. He won an Olympic silver medal in 1968 and a bronze medal in 1976. In 1974, at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in Havana, Cuba, he won the world title. Garbey was gold medalist at Light middleweight at the Pan-American games in 1967, 1971, and 1975.

Olympic results

1968 (as a Light middleweight)

• Defeated Eamonn McCusker (Ireland) TKO 1
• Defeated Detlef Dahn (East Germany) 3-2
• Defeated Eric Blake (Great Britain) KO 1
• Defeated Johnny Baldwin (United States) 4-1
• Lost to Boris Lagutin (Soviet Union) 0-5

1972 (as a Light middleweight)

• Defeated Ricky Barnor (Ghana) 5-0
• Defeated Franz Csandl (Austria) 5-0
• Defeated Jae Keun-Lim (South Korea) TKO 2
• Lost to Wieslaw Rudkowski (Poland) 1-4

1976 (as a Light middleweight)

• Defeated Dashnian Olzwoi (Mongolia) KO 3
• Defeated Earl Liburd (Virgin Islands) RSC 2
• Defeated Kalevi Kosunen (Finland) RSC 1
• Lost to Tadija Kačar (Yugoslavia) 1-4

World amateur championships results

1974 (as a Light middleweight)

• Defeated Tomas Kemel (Czechoslovakia) TKO 1
• Defeated Peter Tiepold (East Germany) TKO 3
• Defeated Emeterio Villanueva (Mexico) PTS
• Defeated Anatoly Klimanov (Soviet Union) PTS
• Defeated Alfredo Lemus (Venezuela) 3-2