Cuba competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 137 competitors, 109 men and 28 women, took part in 69 events in 14 sports.
Medalists Medal Name Sport Event Boxing Men's bantamweight Boxing Men's welterweight Boxing Men's heavyweight Boxing Men's light-heavyweight Athletics Women's 100 metres , Marlene Elejarde, Fulgencia Romay, and Carmen Valdés Athletics Women's 4×100 metre relay , Miguel Calderón, Rafael Cañizares, Pedro Chappé, Juan Carlos Domecq, Ruperto Herrera, Tomás Herrera, Conrado Pérez, Juan Roca, Franklin Standard, Alejandro Urgellés, and Oscar Varona Basketball Men's team Boxing Men's flyweight
Athletics
Men's 100 metres Hermes Ramírez First Heat — DNS (→ did not advance) Pablo Montes First Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)
Men's High Jump Irolan Hechavarria Qualification Round — DNS (→ did not advance)
Men's 4 × 100 m Relay José Triana, Juan Morales, Hermes Ramírez, and Pablo Montes Heat — 39.65s Semifinals — 39.04s (→ did not advance)
Basketball
Boxing
Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg) Emilio Correa → Gold Medal First round — Bye Second round — defeated , 5:0 Third round — defeated , TKO-2 Quarterfinals — defeated , 3:2 Semifinals — defeated , 3:2 Final — defeated , 5:0
Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg) Rolando Garbey First round — defeated , 5:0 Second round — defeated , 5:0 Third round — defeated , TKO-2 Quarterfinals — lost to , 1:4
Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg) Teófilo Stevenson → Gold Medal First round — defeated , TKO-1 Quarterfinals — defeated , TKO-3 Semifinals — defeated , TKO-2 Final — defeated , walk-over
Canoeing
Cycling
Six cyclists represented Cuba in 1972.
Individual road race Gregorio Aldo Arencibia — 75th place Raúl Marcelo Vázquez — did not finish (→ no ranking) José Prieto — did not finish (→ no ranking) Pedro Rodríguez — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Team time trial Gregorio Aldo Arencibia Roberto Menéndez Pedro Rodríguez Raúl Marcelo Vázquez
Individual pursuit Roberto Heredero
Team pursuit Gregorio Aldo Arencibia Roberto Heredero Roberto Menéndez Raúl Marcelo Vázquez
Fencing
15 fencers, 10 men and 5 women, represented Cuba in 1972.
Men's foil Eduardo Jhons Jesús Gil Enrique Salvat
Men's team foil Evelio González, Eduardo Jhons, Jesús Gil, Enrique Salvat, Jorge Garbey
Men's sabre Manuel Ortíz Guzman Salazar Francisco de la Torre
Men's team sabre Hilario Hipólito, Guzman Salazar, Francisco de la Torre, Manuel Ortíz, Manuel Suárez
Women's foil Margarita Rodríguez Marlene Infante María Esther García
Women's team foil Irene Forbes, María Esther García, Marlene Infante, Margarita Rodríguez, Nereida Rodríguez
Gymnastics
Judo
Men's Lightweight Héctor Rodríguez
Men's Middleweight Isaac Azcuy
Men's Half-Heavyweight José Ibañez
Rowing
Men's Coxed Pairs Lázaro Rivero, Teófilo Lores and Jesús Rosello Heat — 8:17.34 Repechage — 8:37.14 (→ did not advance)
Men's Coxless Fours Eralio Cabrera, Troadio Delgado, Ramón Luperón, and Angel Serra
Shooting
Eight male shooters represented Cuba in 1972.
25 m pistol Arturo Costa
50 m pistol Santiago Trompeta
300 m rifle, three positions Miguel Valdes
50 m rifle, three positions Miguel Valdes Raúl Llanos
50 m rifle, prone Humberto Cabrera Adelso Peña
Skeet Roberto Castrillo Servilio Torres
Volleyball
Men's Team Competition Preliminary Round (Group B) Lost to East Germany (0-3) Lost to Japan (0-3) Defeated West Germany (3-2) Lost to Romania (0-3) Defeated Brazil (3-2) Classification Match 9th/10th place: Lost to Poland (0-3) → Tenth place Team Roster Alfredo Figueredo Antonio Rodríguez Carlos Dilaut Diego Lapera Enrique Fortes Ernesto Martínez Jorge Pérez Vento Lorenzo Martínez Luis Calderon Luis Jiménez Orlando Samuell Pedro Delgado
Water polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References
External links Official Olympic Reports International Olympic Committee results database