Alexis Rubalcaba
Appearance
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Full name | Alexis Rubalcaba Polledo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pedro Betancourt, Matanzas | September 9, 1972||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 95 kg (209 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Super Heavyweight | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alexis Rubalcaba (born September 9, 1972) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the Super Heavyweight division. He twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1996 (where he suffered a shocking loss to Paea Wolfgramm of Tonga in the quarter-finals) and in 2000. One of his biggest achievements in amateur boxing was winning the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Two years earlier, at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he won a silver medal.
Results
[edit]1996 Summer Olympics
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Paolo Vidoz (Italy) RSC 1 (2:39)
- Lost to Paea Wolfgramm (Tonga) 12-17
1999 Pan American Games
- Defeated Ruben Pallardel (Peru) KO 1
- Defeated Patrice L'Heureux (Canada) RSC 2
- Defeated Claudio Silva (Brazil) RSCH 1
- Defeated Davin King (United States) WO.
2000 Summer Olympics
- Defeated Cengiz Koc (Germany) KO 1
- Lost to Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Kazakhstan) 12-25
References
[edit]- Amateur record ( ( 2009-10-25)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alexis Rubalcaba". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
Categories:
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Heavyweight boxers
- Super-heavyweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Cuba
- Cuban male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Cuban boxing biography stubs