ALBERTO JUANTORENA DANGER
(1950 - )
Original from Santiago de Cuba. His gold medals in 400 m (44,26) and 800 (1:43,50) in the Olympic Games of 1976 Montreal, rose him forever to the glory. In 1977 he set pace in the 800m with a world r...
ANA FIDELIA QUIROZ MORET
(1963 - )
Original from Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba. Winner of several gold medals in 800m of athletics at world championships in Gotemburg, Sweden, 1995 and Athens, Greek, 1997 after having suffered grave...
ANIER GARCÍA ORTIZ
(1973 - )
Original from Santiago de Cuba. Winner of gold and bronze medals (110m hurdles) at the Olympic Games of Sydney and Athens. He is 1, 90 meters tall and 85 kilograms weigh and boasts a refined techniqu...
MARÍA CARIDAD COLÓN RUENES
(1958 - )
She was born in Baracoa, Guantánamo, and is grand-daughter of a mambi general of the Cuban independence wars. She became the first Latin American woman winning an Olympic medal of gold in the javelin ...
RAFAEL FORTÚN CHACÓN
(1919 - 1982)
This Camagüey-born athlete became champion of the 100 meters at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, 1946; Guatemala 1950 and Mexico 1954. He had the privilege of competing at the...
Baseball
ANTONIO MUÑOZ HERNÁNDEZ
(1951 - )
Born at the Escambray mountains in Sancti Spíritus. Notable baseball player who was member of Cuba teams, winner of world championships around the 70s and 80s of XX century. Left-handed batter of grea...
ANTONIO PACHECO MASSÓ
(1964 - )
He was born at Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba Province. Proudly wearing the Cuban uniform at three Olympic Games, seven world championships, four Panamerican Games and the same quantity of Central Am...
CONRADO MARRERO RAMOS
(1912 - )
He was born at Laberinto Farmer in Sagua la Grande, in the central region of the country. That is the origin of his nickname Guajiro de Laberinto. Being 37 years old he made his bow at the amateur bas...
OMAR LINARES IZQUIERDO
(1967 - )
He is from San Juan y Martínez, land of the best tobacco of the world. Many consider him as the best baseball player ever seen in Cuba. “El Niño”. being 16 years old debuted at Cuban national series a...
ORESTES KINDELÁN OLIVARES
(1964 - )
Baseball player original from Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba. He is considered as the Best Batter of wide scope of this sport in many years in the island. He batted 487 home runs in 6 5888 times to b...
Boxing
ELIGIO SARDIÑAS MONTALVO (KID CHOCOLATE)
(1910 - 1988)
He was born at the Havana-based municipality of El Cerro. He is part of the brilliant roster of immortals of boxing and his statue rises and gives pride to the entrance of the famous Madison Square Ga...
FÉLIX SAVÓN FABRÉ
(1967 - )
This Guantánamo-born athlete is joining the Hungarian Lazlo Papp and the Cuban Teófilo Stevenson in the selected roster of boxers gaining three Olympic medals of gold. Being 1.98 meters tall, he achie...
Chess
JOSE RAUL CAPABLANCA y GRAUPERA
(1988 - 1942)
He was born at the Havana-based Morro Castle. Being only four, he started to move the chess pieces, eight years later he gained the Cuban championship after defeating Alfredo Corzo in the final match....
Cycling
SERGIO “PIPIÁN” MARTÍNEZ
(1943 - 1979)
Pipián is considered soul of the first cyclist rounds to Cuba in Madruga, La Habana. In 1964, he was crowned as champion and repeated in the third, fifth and sixth editions. At the Central American an...
Fencing
RAMÓN FONST SEGUNDO
(1883 - 1959)
One of the best fencing players of all times and managed to be active along forty years. First Cuban to conquest a gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games and it happened in Paris 1900, where b...
Fights
FILIBERTO AZCUY AGUILERA
(1972 - )
Original from Camagüey. As wrestler he made his bow with the world title in 1993 after having won the fourth position in the JJ. OO in Barcelona Games, 1992. He entered the luminaries` path after the ...
High Jump
JAVIER SOTOMAYOR SANABRIA
(1967 - )
He was born in Limonar, Matanzas. Being 19 years old, he set the world junior record of high jump in 2.36. During his entire career, he jumps above 2,40 22 times. His first absolute world record is 2....
Immersion
DÉBORA ANDOLLO LÓPEZ
(1967 - )
This Havana-born athlete boasts 15 world absolute records of apnea diving, and this hazard was set after being part of the national team of synchronized swimming achieving as major success the individ...
Judo
DRIULIS GONZÁLEZ MORALES
(1973 - )
Original from the oriental province of Guantánamo. She started on Judo being only ten years and she is currently exhibiting an excellent profile: Bronze medal in the Olympic Games of Barcelona, 1992; ...
Long Jump
IVAN PEDROSO SOLER
(1972 - )
This incredible jumper was born at the Cuban capital, treasuring five world titles indoors and three outdoors. Olympic champion in Sydney with 8,55 m, he boasts a jump length of 8, 71 as his best reco...
Volleyball
MIREYA LUIS HERNÁNDEZ
(1967 - )
Born in Camaguey. She stayed 18 years in the National Team of Volleyball as one of its major figures. Gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, Atlanta 1996 and Sidney 2000. Outstanding performa...
Weights
DANIEL NÚÑEZ AGUIAR
(1958 - )
He was born in Santiago de Cuba. Being 15 years old, he started on practicing weight lifting and about ten years after, he was acknowledged at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games (56 kgs), becoming the Fir...
