Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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Cuba competed in the
2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
in Beijing, People's Republic of China. As of 8 August 2008, 165 Cuban athletes had qualified to compete in 16 sports. The country's flagbearer at the opening ceremony was wrestler
Mijaín López Mijaín López Núñez (born 20 August 1982) is a Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time World Champion, and five-time Pan American Games champion and is widely considered one of the greatest wrestlers of ...
.


Medalists


Archery

Cuba sent archers to the Olympics for the third time, seeking the nation's first Olympic medal in the sport.
Juan Carlos Stevens Juan Carlos Stevens (born October 22, 1968, in Santiago de Cuba) is an athlete from Cuba, who competes in archery. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Stevens finished his ranking round with a total of 659 points, which ...
earned the country its only qualifying spot, in the men's competition, by placing second in the 2008 Pan American championship.


Athletics

Cuba sent 40 representatives in athletics. ;Men ;Track & road events ;Field events ;Combined events –
Decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in Athletics (sport), athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek language, Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ...
;Women ;Track & road events ;Field events ;Combined events –
Heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...
* The athlete who finished in second place,
Lyudmila Blonska Lyudmyla Leonidivna Blonska, née Shevchuk ( uk, Людмила Леонідівна Блонська (Шевчук)), sometimes known as Lyudmila Blonskaya, (born November 9, 1977) is a Ukrainian former heptathlete, pentathlete, and long jumper. ...
of the Ukraine, tested positive for a banned substance. Both the A and the B tests were positive, therefore Blonska was stripped of her silver medal, and Quintana moved up a position.


Baseball

Cuba earned a qualification spot in baseball by placing in the top two at the 2006 Americas Olympic Qualifying Event.


Boxing

Cuba qualified ten boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. The light heavyweight class was the only one in which Cuba did not qualify a boxer. Nine of the ten Cuban qualifiers did so at the first American qualifying tournament.1st AIBA American Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament
Hernandez became the tenth Cuban boxer to qualify when he did so at the second American continental qualifying tournament.
2nd AIBA American Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament
For the first time since the
1988 Olympic Games 1988 Olympics refers to both: *The 1988 Winter Olympics, which were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada *The 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul ...
, Cuba did not win a gold medal.


Canoeing


Sprint

Three Cuban canoers and one kayaker have qualified for the Olympic Games. Qualification Legend: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final


Cycling


Road


Track

;Sprint ;Omnium


Diving

;Men


Fencing

;Women


Judo

;Men ;Women


Modern pentathlon


Rowing

;Men ;Women Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage


Shooting

;Men ;Women


Swimming

;Men ;Women


Taekwondo

1 Ángel Matos was leading 3–2 in the bronze medal bout against Kazakhstan's Arman Chilmanov, until he apparently suffered a broken toe, and was subsequently ruled to have retired after the allotted one minute of injury time expired. Matos kicked referee Chakir Chelbat in the face, pushed a judge and spat on the floor of the arena before he and his coach, Leudin González, who criticized the referee's ruling as too strict and accused Kazakhstan of bribing officials, were escorted put by security. The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) banned Matos and González for life, and Matos' results at the Beijing Games were deleted from the records.


Volleyball


Beach


Indoor


Women's tournament

Cuba qualified a team to the women's tournament. The team won all of its five group play games, finishing as group winners. They also won the quarterfinal, bot lost both the semifinal and the bronze medal game, thus obtaining a final ranking of 4th for the tournament. ;Roster ;Group play ;Quarterfinal ;Semifinal ;Bronze medal game


Weightlifting

;Men


Wrestling

;Men's freestyle * Michel Batista originally finished fifth, but in November 2016, he was promoted to bronze due to disqualification of Taimuraz Tigiyev. ;Men's Greco-Roman


See also

* Cuba at the 2007 Pan American Games * Cuba at the 2008 Summer Paralympics


References

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