Alexis Rubalcaba (born September 9, 1972) is a retired boxer from

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, who competed in the Super Heavyweight division. He twice represented his native country at the

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: in

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

(where he suffered a shocking loss to Paea Wolfgramm of

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in the quarter-finals) and in

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. One of his biggest achievements in amateur boxing was winning the gold medal at the

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, Manitoba, Canada. Two years earlier, at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships in

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, he won a silver medal.

Results

1996 Summer Olympics *1st round bye *Defeated

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(Italy) RSC 1 (2:39) *Lost to Paea Wolfgramm (Tonga) 12-17 1999 Pan American Games *Defeated Ruben Pallardel (Peru) KO 1 *Defeated Patrice L'Heureux (Canada) RSC 2 *Defeated Claudio Silva (Brazil) RSCH 1 *Defeated Davin King (United States) WO. 2000 Summer Olympics *Defeated Cengiz Koc (Germany) KO 1 *Lost to Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (Kazakhstan) 12-25

References

Amateur record
( ( 2009-10-25) * 1972 births Living people Heavyweight boxers Super-heavyweight boxers Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 1999 Pan American Games Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Cuba Cuban male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games gold medalists in boxing Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games {{Cuba-boxing-bio-stub