Raúl Cascaret Fonseca (20 June 1962 – 26 March 1995) was a Cuban
freestyle wrestler
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...
. Cascaret was a
two-time World Champion and competed in the
men's freestyle 62 kg at the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
, placing fourth.
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Pan American Games
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champion and a seven-time Cuban National champion, Cascaret died in a car crash in 1995, at the age of 32.
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1962 births
1995 deaths
Cuban male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Cuba
Wrestlers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Cuba
Universiade medalists in wrestling
Pan American Games medalists in wrestling
Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
Wrestlers at the 1979 Pan American Games
Wrestlers at the 1983 Pan American Games
Wrestlers at the 1987 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
20th-century Cuban people
Friendship Games medalists
Road incident deaths in Cuba
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