Adolfo Orta Martínez ( Spanish: Adolfo Horta Martínez ; October 3, 1957 , Santiago de Cuba - November 28, 2016 ) - Cuban boxer of the light weight categories, played for the Cuban national team in the second half of the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. Silver medalist of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, three-time world champion, twice champion of the Pan American Games, winner of many international tournaments and national championships.
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| Citizenship |  Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of Birth | Santiago de Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight category | featherweight (57 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 174 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Number of battles | 346 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of wins | 319 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of lesions | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Adolfo Horta was born on October 3, 1957 in the village of San Lorenzo, province of Santiago de Cuba , spent his childhood in the city of Camaguey . He began to actively engage in boxing at the age of twelve, repeatedly became the champion of the country among juniors, and in 1974 he moved to the adult level, began to be invited to the main team of the national team. Two years later, for the first time, he won the Cuban championship, defeating all competitors in the bantamweight team (subsequently repeated this achievement eight more times), in addition, he was the best in the Central American and Caribbean championships. In 1978, he attended the World Championships in Belgrade, from where he also brought a gold medal.
In 1979, Horta climbed into the light weight category, after which he successfully went to the Pan American Games in San Juan, where he again won the medal of the highest standard. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow - he managed to reach the finals, but lost 1: 4 to the representative of East Germany, Rudy Fink , in the decisive match. Despite the defeat, the Cuban remained in the world of boxing elite and a year later won a landslide victory at the World Cup in Montreal.
At the 1982 world championships in Munich, Horta performed in the featherweight category, defeating all rivals and climbing the top step of the podium. The following season he visited the Pan American Games in Caracas, and added another gold medal to his track record. He was supposed to represent the country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, but Cuba boycotted these competitions, and instead Orta took part in the tournament of the countries of the socialist camp " Friendship-84 ", where he won another gold. In 1986, Adolfo Horta won his third gold medal in the World Cup; at the competitions in the American city of Reno he was again the best, this time in the lightweight category. Shortly after these competitions, he decided to leave the national team and ended his career as an athlete; in all, he held 346 fights in amateur Olympic boxing, of which 319 ended in victory. After the end of his sports career, he worked as a coach, for a long time he lived in Mexico, where he trained young promising boxers.
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Links
- Adolfo HORTA MARTÍNEZ (Spanish) - performance statistics for major tournaments
- Adolfo Horta - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com