Ruperto Herrera Tabio (born December 6, 1949 in
Havana
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basketball
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player from
Cuba
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. At a height of 2.00 m (6'6 ") tall, and a weight of 95 kg (210 lbs.), he played at the
shooting guard and
small forward
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positions. He received the
FIBA Order of Merit
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in 1999, and he became a
FIBA Hall of Fame player, in 2015. He was awarded with the
Olympic Order
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, in 2019.
Olympic Order given to Patrick Baumann posthumously.
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Club career
Herrera was a nine-time champion of the top-tier level Cuban league, in the years 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, and 1975.
National team career
Herrera was a long-time member of the senior men's Cuban national basketball team. With Cuba's senior national team, he played at four Summer Olympic Games, as he played at Mexico 1968
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, Munich 1972
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, Montreal 1976
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, and Moscow 1980
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. He also played at two FIBA World Cups, playing at Yugoslavia 1970, and Puerto Rico 1974.
With Cuba, he won the bronze medal at the 1971 Pan American Games *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
. He also won the bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
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, which were held in Munich
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, West Germany
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.
References
External links
FIBA Hall of Fame profile
(archive)
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1949 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1971 Pan American Games
Basketball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Cuban men's basketball players
1970 FIBA World Championship players
1974 FIBA World Championship players
FIBA Hall of Fame inductees
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic basketball players of Cuba
Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
Olympic medalists in basketball
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in basketball
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Basketball players from Havana
Universiade medalists in basketball
Universiade bronze medalists for Cuba
Medalists at the 1970 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games
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