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Armando Martinez

altArmando Martínez Limendu (born August 29, 1961) is a Cuban boxer.

At 18 years of age he won the gold medal in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category at the 1980 Summer Olympics, beating Aleksandr Koshkyn in the final.alt

In 1982 he won the silver medal at the World Championships in Munich, West Germany, this time losing to Koshkyn. He had previously won a silver medal at the 1978 World Championships.

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Olympic results
    Defeated Zygmunt Gosiewski (Poland) 5-0
    Defeated George Kabuto (Uganda) RSC 1
    Defeated Francisco de Jesus (Brazil) 5-0
    Defeated Jan Franek (Czechoslovakia) RSC 2
    Defeated Aleksandr Koshkyn (Soviet Union) 4-1

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