Washington Rodríguez (boxer)
Appearance
![]() Rodríguez (2nd from right) at the 1964 Olympics | ||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Nickname | Cuerito | |||||||||||
Born | April 6, 1944 Montevideo, Uruguay | |||||||||||
Died | December 31, 2014 (aged 70) Montevideo, Uruguay | |||||||||||
Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Washington Rodríguez Medina (April 6, 1944 – 31 December 2014) was a Uruguayan boxer, who won a bronze medal in the bantamweight category (– 54 kg) at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
Earlier in 1962 Rodríguez won a bantamweight bronze medal at the Latin American Games. After the 1964 Olympics he turned professional, and retired in 1969 with a record of five wins (four by knockout) and one loss.[3] He then worked at the National Bank of Uruguay.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Cuerito Rodríguez dies" (in Spanish). Ovación - EL PAIS. 1 January 2015.
- ^ a b Washington Rodríguez. sports-reference
- ^ Boxing record for Washington Rodríguez from BoxRec (registration required)
Categories:
- 1944 births
- 2014 deaths
- Bantamweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Uruguay
- Olympic bronze medalists for Uruguay
- Uruguayan people of Spanish descent
- Sportspeople from Montevideo
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Uruguayan male boxers
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- South American boxing biography stubs
- Uruguayan martial arts biography stubs
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- Uruguayan sportspeople stubs