Serguei Rondón
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| Full name | Serguei Rondón Pedroso | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Cuba | ||||||||||||
| Born |
28 October 1979 Havana, Cuba | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Style | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
| Club | Cerro Pelado | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Filiberto Delgado | ||||||||||||
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Serguei Rondón Pedroso (born October 28, 1979 in Havana) is a retired amateur Cuban freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's welterweight category.[1] He won the gold medal in the 66-kg division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and was later selected to the Cuban team for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[2] Throughout his sporting career, Rondon trained for the wrestling team at Cerro Pelado Sports Club in Havana, under his personal coach and mentor Filiberto Delgado.
Rondon emerged himself into the global scene at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he pinned Colombia's Edison Hurtado on his final match to take home the gold medal in the men's welterweight division.[2][3] Despite his early success from the Games, Rondon continued to reach the summit of the world rankings at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in New York City, New York, United States, but nearly missed out the podium after he lost the bronze medal match against Japan's Kazuhiko Ikematsu.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Rondon qualified for the Cuban team in the men's 66 kg class by receiving a berth and placing fourth from the World Championships.[4][5] He lost his opening match to Ukraine's Elbrus Tedeyev, who later claimed an Olympic gold at the end of the tournament, but managed to subdue Georgia's Otar Tushishvili with a ten-point technical fall, that left his opponent frail and injured. Finishing second in the prelim pool and ninth overall in the final standings, Rondon's performance was not enough to put him through into the quarterfinals.[6]
References
- ↑ "Serguei Rondón". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- 1 2 "Subcampeón olímpico encabeza equipo cubano al Mundial de Lucha Libre" [Cuban Olympic wrestling team heads to World Wrestling Champs] (in Spanish). Diario Co Latino. 5 September 2003. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ↑ Fuller, John (7 August 2003). "Guerrero and Sanderson advance to the semifinals; U.S. men's freestyle wrestlers go 9–1 in first session of the Pan American Games". USA Wrestling. The Mat. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ↑ Abbott, Gary (18 July 2004). "Olympic Games preview at 66 kg/145.5 lbs. in men's freestyle". USA Wrestling. The Mat. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ↑ Quiñones Diáz, Pupo (2 August 2004). "Lucha libre cubana estará bien representada en Atenas" [Cuban wrestling will be represented in Athens] (in Spanish). Cuba Hora. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ↑ "Wrestling: Men's Freestyle 66kg". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 30 September 2013.