Cuba at the 1992 Summer Olympics
IOC code	CUB
NOC	Cuban Olympic Committee
in Barcelona
Competitors	176 (126 men and 50 women) in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Héctor Milián
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold 14 Silver 6 Bronze 11 Total 31
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Cuba competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after boycotting both the 1984 Games and the 1988 Games. 176 competitors, 126 men and 50 women, took part in 90 events in 16 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Gold

• Javier Sotomayor — Athletics, Men's High Jump
• Maritza Martén — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
• Omar Ajete, Rolando Arrojo, José Raúl Delgado, Giorge Diaz, José Estrada González, Osvaldo Fernández, Lourdes Gourriel, Alberto Hernández, Orlando Hernández, Orestes Kindelán, Omar Linares, Germán Mesa, Víctor Mesa, Antonio Pacheco, Juan Padilla, Juan Pérez, Luis Ulacia, Ermidelio Urrutia, Jorge Valdés, and Lázaro Vargas — Baseball, Men's Team Competition
• Rogelio Marcelo — Boxing, Men's Light Flyweight
• Joel Casamayor — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight
• Héctor Vinent — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
• Juan Carlos Lemus — Boxing, Men's Light Middleweight
• Ariel Hernández — Boxing, Men's Middleweight
• Félix Savón — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
• Roberto Balado — Boxing, Men's Super Heavyweight
• Odalis Revé — Judo, Women's Middleweight (66 kg)
• Regla Bell, Mercedes Calderón, Magaly Carvajal, Marlenis Costa, Idalmis Gato, Lilia Izquierdo, Norka Latamblet, Mireya Luis, Tania Ortiz, and Regla Torres — Volleyball, Women's Team Competition
• Héctor Milián — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight
• Alejandro Puerto — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight (57 kg)

Silver

• Roberto Hernández, Héctor Herrera, Lázaro Martínez, and Norberto Téllez — Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
• Raúl González — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
• Juan Hernández — Boxing, Men's Welterweight
• Guillermo Betancourt, Tulio Díaz, Hermenegildo García, Oscar García, and Elvis Gregory — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
• Estela Rodríguez — Judo, Women's Heavyweight
• Pablo Lara — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

Bronze

• Jorge Aguilera, Joel Isasi, Joel Lamela, and Andrés Simón — Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m Relay
• Roberto Moya — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
• Ana Fidelia Quirot — Athletics, Women's 800 metres
• Ioamnet Quintero — Athletics, Women's High Jump
• Elvis Gregory — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
• Israel Hernández — Judo, Men's Half Lightweight (65 kg)
• Amarilis Savón — Judo, Women's Extra Lightweight (48 kg)
• Driulis González — Judo, Women's Lightweight (56 kg)
• Wilber Sánchez — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight
• Juan Marén — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
• Lázaro Reinoso — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight (62 kg)

Athletics

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

• Lázaro Martínez, Héctor Herrera, Norberto Téllez, and Roberto Hernández
  • Heat — 2:59.13
  • Final — 2:59.51 (→
    
    Silver Medal)

Men's Marathon

• Alberto Cuba — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Long Jump

• Iván Pedroso
  • Qualification — 8.07 m
  • Final — 8.11 m (→ 4th place)
• Jaime Jefferson
  • Qualification — 8.09 m
  • Final — 8.08 m (→ 5th place)

Men's Triple Jump

• Yoelvis Quesada
  • Qualification — 17.21 m
  • Final — 17.18 m (→ 6th place)

Men's Discus Throw

• Roberto Moya
  • Qualification — 62.06 m
  • Final — 64.12 m (→
    
    Bronze Medal)
• Juan Martínez
  • Qualification — 60.34 m
  • Final — 62.64 m (→ 6th place)

Women's 800 metres

• Ana Fidelia Quirot
  • Heat — 1:59.06
  • Semifinal — 2:00.86
  • Final — 1:56.80 (→
    
    Bronze Medal)

Women's Discus Throw

• Maritza Marten
  • Qualification — 65.02m
  • Final — 70.06m (→
    
    Gold Medal)
• Hilda Ramos
  • Qualification — 62.82m
  • Final — 63.80m (→ 6th place)
• Bárbara Hechavarría
  • Qualification — 60.22m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Ioamnet Quintero
  • Qualification — 1.92 m
  • Final — 1.97 m (→
    
    Bronze Medal)
• Silvia Costa
  • Qualification — 1.92 m
  • Final — 1.94 m (→ 5th place)

Baseball

The first Olympic baseball tournament resulted in sevens wins and no losses in the preliminary round for Cuba. A comfortable 6–1 victory over the United States and a dominant 11–1 win against Chinese Taipei earned Cuba the first Olympic gold medal for the sport.

Men's Team Competition:

• Cuba –
  
  Gold Medal (9–0)

Team Roster

• Omar Ajete
• Rolando Arrojo
• José Raúl Delgado
• Giorge Diaz
• José Estrada González
• Osvaldo Fernández
• Lourdes Gourriel
• Alberto Hernández
• Orlando Hernández
• Orestes Kindelán
• Omar Linares
• Germán Mesa
• Víctor Mesa
• Antonio Pacheco
• Juan Padilla
• Juan Pérez
• Luis Ulacia
• Ermidelio Urrutia
• Jorge Valdés
• Lázaro Vargas

Basketball

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Unified Team (91–89)
  • Defeated Brazil (95–88)
  • Defeated Italy (60–53)
• Semifinals
  • Lost to PR China (70–109)
• Bronze Medal Match
  • Lost to United States (74–88) → 4th place
• Team Roster
  • Andrea Borrell
  • Ana Hernández
  • Olga Vigil
  • Grisel Herrera
  • Biosotis Lagnó
  • Yudith Águila
  • María León
  • Yamilé Martínez
  • Dalia Henry
  • Liset Castillo
  • Regla Hernández
  • Milayda Enríquez
• Head Coach: Manuel Pérez

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Rogelio Marcelo →
  
  Gold Medal
  • First Round – Defeated Mfamasibili Mnisi (SWZ), RSC-3
  • Second Round – Defeated Erdenentsogt Tsogtjargal (MGL), 14:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Rafael Lozano (ESP), 11:3
  • Semifinals – Defeated Roel Velasco (PHI), RSCH-1
  • Final – Defeated Daniel Petrov (BUL), 20:10

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Raúl González →
  
  Silver Medal
  • First Round – Defeated Leszek Olszewski (POL), 15:7
  • Second Round – Defeated Moses Malagu (NGR), RSC-2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated David Serradas (VEN), 14:7
  • Semifinals – Defeated Timothy Austin (USA) RSC-1
  • Final – Lost to Choi Chol-Su (PRK), 2:12

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Joel Casamayor →
  
  Gold Medal
  • First Round – Defeated Devarajan Venkatesan (IND), 13:7
  • Second Round – Defeated Riadh Klai (TUN), 16:11
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Roberto Jalnaiz (PHI), KO-1
  • Semifinals – Defeated Mohamed Achik (MAR), AB-1
  • Final – Defeated Wayne McCullough (IRL), 16:8

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Eddy Suarez
  • First Round – Defeated Lee Chil-Gun (PRK), 20:5
  • Second Round – Defeated Mohamed Soltani (TUN), RSC-2 (02:53)
  • Quarterfinals – Lost to Faustino Reyes (ESP), 7:17

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Julio González Valladares
  • First Round – Lost to Tontcho Tontchev (BUL), 12:14

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Héctor Vinent →
  
  Gold Medal
  • First Round – Defeated Edwin Cassiani (COL), 27:4
  • Second Round – Defeated Andreas Zülow (GER), 14:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Oleg Nikolaev (URS), 26:3
  • Semifinals – Defeated Jyri Kjall (FIN), 13:3
  • Final – Defeated Mark Leduc (CAN), 11:1

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Juan Hernández Sierra →
  
  Silver Medal
  • First Round – Defeated Said Bennajem (FRA), 6:0
  • Second Round – Defeated Jun Jin-Chul (KOR), RSC-2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Søren Antman (SWE), RSC-2
  • Semifinals – Defeated Aníbal Acevedo (PUR), 11:2
  • Final – Lost to Michael Carruth (IRL), 10:13

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Juan Carlos Lemus →
  
  Gold Medal
  • First Round – Defeated Arkadiy Topayev (EUN), 11:0
  • Second Round – Defeated Markus Beyer (GER), RSC-1
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Igors Saplavskis (LAT), 12:2
  • Semifinals – Defeated György Mizsei (HUN), 10:2
  • Final – Defeated Orhan Delibaş (NED), 6:1

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Ariel Hernández →
  
  Gold Medal
  • First Round – Defeated Joseph Lareya (GHA), 6:0
  • Second Round – Defeated Gilberto Brown (ISV), 13:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Sven Ottke (GER), 14:6
  • Semifinals – Defeated Lee Seung-Bae (KOR), 14:1
  • Final – Defeated Chris Byrd (USA), 12:7

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

• Angel Espinosa
  • First Round – Defeated Mehmet Gürgen (TUR), RSC-3
  • Second Round – Defeated Roberto Castelli (ITA), RSC-1
  • Quarterfinals – Lost to Wojciech Bartnik (POL), 3:9

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

• Félix Savón →
  
  Gold Medal
  • First Round – Defeated Krysztof Rojek (POL), RSC-2
  • Second Round – Defeated Bert Teuchiert (GER), 11:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Danell Nicholson (USA), 13:11
  • Semifinals – Defeated Arnold Vanderlyde (NED), 23:3
  • Final – Defeated David Izonritei (NGR), 14:1

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

• Roberto Balado →
  
  Gold Medal
  • First Round – Bye
  • Second Round – Defeated Tom Glesby (CAN), 16:2
  • Quarterfinals – Defeated Larry Donald (USA), 10:4
  • Semifinals – Defeated Brian Nielsen (DEN), 15:1
  • Final – Defeated Richard Igbineghu (NGR), 13:2

Canoeing

Cycling

Four male cyclists represented Cuba in 1992.

Men's team pursuit

• Conrado Cabrera
• Eugenio Castro
• Noël de la Cruz
• Raúl Domínguez

Men's points race

• Conrado Cabrera

Fencing

Five male fencers represented Cuba in 1992.

Men's foil

• Elvis Gregory
• Guillermo Betancourt
• Oscar García
• Alain Julian

Men's team foil

• Elvis Gregory, Guillermo Betancourt, Oscar García, Tulio Díaz, Hermenegildo García

Judo

Men's Half-Lightweight

• Israel Hernández

Men's Lightweight

• Ignacio Sayu

Men's Middleweight

• Andrés Franco

Men's Half-Heavyweight

• Belarmino Salgado

Men's Heavyweight

• Frank Moreno

Women's Extra-Lightweight

• Amarilis Savón

Women's Half-Lightweight

• Legna Verdecia

Women's Lightweight

• Driulys González

Women's Half-Middleweight

• Ileana Beltrán

Women's Middleweight

• Odalis Revé

Women's Half-Heavyweight

• Niurka Moreno

Women's Heavyweight

• Estela Rodríguez

Rowing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Rodolfo Falcón
  • Heat – 55.99
  • Final – 55.76 (→ 7th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Rodolfo Falcón
  • Heat – 2:00.52
  • B-Final – 2:00.22 (→ 9th place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Mario González
  • Heat – 1:03.53 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Mario González
  • Heat – 2:16.45 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Table tennis

Volleyball

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Netherlands (3–1)
  • Defeated Algeria (3–0)
  • Defeated Unified Team (3–1)
  • Lost to Brazil (1–3)
  • Defeated South Korea (3–0)
• Quarterfinals
  • Defeated Spain (3–0)
• Semifinals
  • Lost to Netherlands (0–3)
• Bronze Medal Match
  • Lost to United States (1–3) → Fourth place
• Team Roster
  • Félix Millán
  • Freddy Brooks
  • Idalberto Valdes
  • Ihosvany Hernández
  • Joël Despaigne
  • Lazaro Beltran
  • Lazaro Marin
  • Nicolas Vives
  • Osvaldo Hernández
  • Raúl Diago
  • Rodolfo Sánchez
  • Abel Sarmientos

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated PR China (3–1)
  • Defeated Brazil (3–1)
  • Defeated Netherlands (3–0)
• Semifinals
  • Defeated United States (3–2)
• Final
  • Defeated Unified Team (3–1) →
    
    Gold Medal
• Team Roster
  • Regla Bell
  • Mercedes Calderón
  • Magalys Carvajal
  • Marlenys Costa
  • Ana Ibis Fernandez
  • Idalmis Gato
  • Lilia Izquierdo
  • Norka Latamblet
  • Mireya Luis
  • Raisa O'Farrill
  • Tania Ortiz
  • Regla Torres
• Head Coach: Eugenio Lafita

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Greece (10–9)
  • Lost to Hungary (11–12)
  • Lost to Italy (8–11)
  • Lost to the Netherlands (9–11)
  • Lost to Spain (10–12)
• Classification Matches
  • Lost to Australia (5–7)
  • Lost to Germany (6–10) → 8th place
• Team Roster
  • Bárbaro Diaz
  • Juan Barreras
  • Norge Blay
  • Pablo Cuesta
  • Jorge Del Valle
  • Marcelo Derauville
  • Lazaro Fernández
  • Ernesto García
  • Juan Hernández Olivera
  • Juan Hernández Silveira
  • Guillermo Martínez
  • Iván Pérez
  • José Ramos

Weightlifting

Men's Middleweight

• Pablo Lara
• Raúl Mora

Men's Light-Heavyweight

• Lino Elias
• José Ernesto Heredia

Men's Middle-Heavyweight

• Emilio Lara

Men's Heavyweight II

• Flavio Villavicencio
• Maurys Charón

Men's Super-Heavyweight

• Ernesto Aguero

Wrestling