Raúl Vilches More (2 October 1954 – 13 January 2022), more commonly known as Raúl Vilches, was a Cuban

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player and two-time Olympian.

Career

Vilches competed in the

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and 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 ...

. In 1976, he was part of the Cuban team that won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all six matches. Four years later, he finished seventh with the Cuban team in the 1980 Olympic tournament. He played all six matches again.

Personal life

Vilches died from cancer in

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

on 13 January 2022, at the age of 67.

References

External links

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Volleybox.net Profile

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