Rogelio Marcelo

Rogelio Marcelo

Rogelio Marcelo (front row, second from right) in 1990
Personal information
Full name	Rogelio Marcelo García
Nationality	Cuban
Born	(1965-06-11) June 11, 1965 (age 59) Guantánamo
Height	1.50 m (4 ft 11 in)
Weight	48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Light Flyweight
Medal record Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona Light Flyweight World Amateur Championships 1989 Moscow Light Flyweight 1991 Sydney Light Flyweight Pan American Games 1991 Havana Light Flyweight Central American and Caribbean Games 1990 Mexico City Light Flyweight 1986 Santiago Light Flyweight

Rogelio Marcelo García (born June 11, 1965 in Guantánamo) is a retired boxer from Cuba, who competed in the light flyweight (– 48 kg) division during the early 1990s.

Marcelo lost in 1989 and 1991 at the world championships finals to American winner Eric Griffin but represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where he won the gold medal (Griffin lost to Rafael Lozano 5-6 ). A year earlier, at the Pan Am Games in Havana, Cuba, he had triumphed in the same division.