Bernardo Comas

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Bernardo Comas
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Comas (left) fighting Manfred Trauten in 1981
Personal information
Full nameBernardo Comas Aguilera
NationalityFlag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
Born (1960-11-14) 14 November 1960 (age 61)
Ligerito, near Colombia, Cuba
Sport
Sport Boxing
Weight class Middleweight

Bernardo Comas Aguilera (born 14 November 1960) is a Cuban former amateur boxer in the middleweight division who won the World Amateur Championships at Munich in 1982 and was a gold medalist at the 1983 Pan American Games. [1]

Comas, who missed the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics due to the boycott, also won gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games and Friendship Games. [2]

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References

  1. "U.S. boxers win two golds". The Call-Leader. Elwood, Indiana. 29 August 1983.
  2. Rodriguez, Jose A. (12 September 2018). "Bernardo Comas: Boxing Came into My Life Unexpectedly". Havana Times .