Armando Martínez Limendu (born 29 August 1961) is a

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. At 18 years of age he won the gold medal in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category at the

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, beating Aleksandr Koshkyn in the final. In 1982 he won the silver medal at the

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, this time losing to Koshkyn. He had previously won a silver medal at the 1978 World Championships.

1980 Olympic results

Below are the results of Armando Martinez, a Cuban light middleweight boxer who competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics: * Round of 32: Defeated Zygmunt Gosiewski (Poland) on points, 5-0 * Round of 16: Defeated

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(Uganda) referee stopped contest in first round * Quarterfinal: Defeated Francisco de Jesus (Brazil) on points, 5-0 * Semifinal: Defeated Jan Franek (Czechoslovakia) referee stopped contest in second round * Final: Defeated Aleksandr Koshkyn (Soviet Union) on points, 4-1 (won gold medal)

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