Luis Felipe Martínez

Name: Luis Felipe Martinez
Birth Name: Luis Felipe Martínez Sánchez
Hometown: Cuba
Amateur Boxer: Record

Luis Felipe Martínez Sánchez (born May 26, 1955) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the middleweight division (– 71 kg) after being defeated in the semifinals by Rufat Riskiyev from the Soviet Union. Two years later he won the silver medal at the second World Championships in Belgrade.

Olympic results

1976 (as a middleweight)

• Defeated Fulgencio Obelmejias (Venezuela) 5-0
• Defeated Bernd Wittenburg (East Germany) 3-2
• Defeated Dragomir Vujković (Yugoslavia) 5-0
• Lost to Rufat Riskiyev (Soviet Union) 2-3

World amateur championships results

1978 (as a middleweight)

• Defeated Stephane Ferrara (France) 5-0
• Defeated Velimir Jeftic (Yugoslavia) AB 3
• Defeated Victor Pereira (Portugal) WO
• Defeated Ilya Iliev (Bulgaria) 5-0
• Lost to Viktor Savchenko (Cuba) 2-3 (won a silver medal)