RHC Olympic Update no.15 - 01 Oct 2000
 
 
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Radio Havana Cuba - Olympics Update no.15 - 01 October 2000

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Sydney, October 1 (RHC) -- [text garbled] was for Cuba with 11 titles two
...more than four years ago-, 11 silver and two bronze medals. Out of the
200 countries present in the international event, 71 of them won at least a
medal. For Latin America, seven countries won medals but only three took
titles: Cuba, 11, and Mexico and Colombia one each. Brazil, Argentina,
Uruguay and Chile were the other Latin American delegations to get any
medals.

The Latin American Olympic Champions were Colombian Maria Isabel Urrutia and
Mexican Soraya Jimenez Mendivil both in weightlifting, Cubans Anier Garcia
in 110 meters hurdles, Ivan Pedroso in long jump, Filiberto Azcuy in
Greco-Roman wrestling, Legan Verdecia and Sibelis Veranes in judo, Guillermo
Rigondeaux, Mario Kindelan, Jorge Gutierrez and Felix Savon in boxing, Angel
Valodia Matos in taekwondo and the island's women volleyball team which made
history with their third consecutive Olympic title of the decade, as well as
Felix Savon, the only boxer in the olympic history that, along with
Hunagarian Lazlo Papp and also Cuban Teofilo Stevenson, has won three
Olympic crowns. Cuba also had outstanding performances in several sports
disciplines.

In boxing for example, in spite of bad decisions that affected the island's
representatives, Cuba won the event with four titles and two bronzes
followed by Russia with two gold, three silver and two bronze medals.

In track and field, Cuba had its best performance at any Olympics with two
gold, two silver and two bronze which meant the fifth place among 44
nations. In the 1992 Barcelona Games the island's athletes had also taken
two titles but only one silver and four third places.

Cuba also won the women's judo event with two gold medals and two silver
thus defeating traditional winners of this discipline such as Japan, China
and Korea. And in wrestling, Cuba's representatives were third with one
title, three silver and one bronze, only behind Russia, first with six
titles and the United States, second with one gold, three silver and three
bronze medals.

YUGOSLAVIA: OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN MEN'S VOLLEYBALL COMPETITIONS

Sydney, October 1 (RHC) -- Yugoslavia gave one of the biggest surprises of
the Sydney Olympic Games when that country's volleyball team won the crown
in the competition for men. In the gold medal match, Yugoslavia defeated the
favorite Russian team in three consecutive sets, 25-22, 25-22 and 25-20. In
the bronze dispute, Italy beat Argentina also 3-0.

Menwhile, in women's handball, Denmark revalidated its title beating Hungary
31-27. In the match for the bronze, Norway took a tight win over South Korea
22-21.

In men's basketball, as it was expected, the U.S.'s Dream Team won the gold
medal not without some difficulties after defeating France 85-75. The bronze
went to Lithuania, winner over Australia 89-71.

Finally, in men's waterpolo, Hungary took its seventh Olympic title and the
first after 24 years beating Russia 13-6. Yugoslavia walked away with the
bronze defeating Spain 8-3.

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