Francisco "Francis" Álvarez Cutiño (born April 12, 1969, in San Luis, Cuba) is a

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

player from

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the

2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from August 1 to 17, 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when Dominican Republic had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America. Al ...

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic , total_type = Total , population_density_km2 = auto , timezone = AST (UTC −4) , area_code_type = Area codes , area_code = 809, 829, 849 , postal_code_type = Postal codes , postal_code = 10100–10699 ( Distrito Nacional) , webs ...

, partnering

Juan Rossell Juan Miguel Rossell Milanes (born December 28, 1969 in Jiguani, Granma) is a beach volleyball player from Cuba, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, par ...

. He represented his native country at the

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and the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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* * * * 1969 births Living people Cuban beach volleyball players Men's beach volleyball players Beach volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic beach volleyball players for Cuba Beach volleyball players at the 2003 Pan American Games Beach volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games {{Cuba-volleyball-bio-stub