- Douglas Rodríguez (boxer)
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Douglas Rodríguez Personal information Full name Douglas Rodríguez Gardiola Nationality Cuba Born June 3, 1950 Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) Weight 51 kilograms (110 lb) Sport Sport Boxing Rated at Flyweight Medal recordWorld Amateur Championships Gold 1974 Havana Flyweight Pan American Games Bronze 1971 Cali Flyweight Olympic Games Bronze 1972 Munich Flyweight Douglas Rodríguez (born June 3, 1950) is a retired amateur boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country in the Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg) category at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
There he won the bronze medal after being stopped in the semifinals by Uganda's eventual silver medalist Leo Rwabwogo. Rodríguez claimed the first ever world title in his weight division by defeating Venezuela's Alfredo Pérez in the final of the 1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Havana, Cuba.
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World Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Flyweight 1974 – 2009: up to 51 kg • 2011: up to 52 kg1974: Douglas Rodríguez (CUB) · 1978: Henryk Średnicki (POL) · 1982: Yuri Alexandrov (USR) · 1986: Pedro Reyes (CUB) · 1989: Yuri Arbachakov (URS) · 1991: István Kovács (HUN) · 1993: Waldemar Font (CUB) · 1995: Zoltan Lunka (GER) · 1997: Manuel Mantilla (CUB) · 1999: Bulat Jumadilov (KAZ) · 2001: Jérôme Thomas (FRA) · 2003: Somjit Jongjohor (THA) · 2005: Lee Ok-Sung (KOR) · 2007: Rau'shee Warren (USA) · 2009: McWilliams Arroyo (PUR) · 2011: Misha Aloyan (RUS)
Categories:- 1950 births
- Living people
- Cuban boxers
- Flyweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Cuba
- Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Cuban boxing biography stubs
- Cuban Olympic medalist stubs
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