Rolando Garbey Garbey (born November 19, 1947, in

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) is a retired

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. He competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category. He won an Olympic silver medal in 1968 and a bronze medal in 1976. In 1974, at the inaugural 1974 World Championships in

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, he won the world title. Garbey was also a gold medalist at light middleweight at the Pan-American games in 1967, 1971, and 1975.

Olympic results

Mexico City - 1968 *Quarterfinal: Defeated

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(Great Britain) by first-round knockout *Semifinal: Defeated Johnny Baldwin (United States) by decision, 4-1 *Final: Lost to

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(Ghana) by decision, 5-0 *Defeated

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(Austria) by decision, 5-0 *Defeated

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(South Korea) by second-round technical knockout *Lost to

Wiesław Rudkowski Wiesław Ksawery Rudkowski (17 November 1946 – 14 February 2016) was a Polish boxer and Olympic silver medalist. He lost the gold medal match to Dieter Kottysch Dieter Kottysch (30 June 1943 – 9 April 2017) was a German amateur mi ...

(Poland) by decision, 1-4 Montreal - 1976 *Round of 32: Defeated Dashnian Olzwoi (Mongolia) by third-round knockout *Round of 16: Defeated Earl Liburd (Virgin Islands) referee stopped contest in second round *Quarterfinal: Defeated Kalevi Kosunen (Finland) referee stopped contest in first round *Semifinal: Lost to

Tadija Kačar Tadija Kačar (born 5 January 1956 in Peručica, near Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a retired Bosnian Serb boxer who represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada. There he won the silver medal in the light middlew ...

(Yugoslavia) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal)

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