Born: August 10, 1971
Country: Cuba
Weight: 59.9 kgs
Height: 170 cm
Event: Boxing-Lightweight (60kg/132lbs)
Olympic Record:
2000 Sydney Games: 1st in Lightweight category
Other Record:
1998 World Cup: 1st in the Lightweight category
1999 World Championship: 1st in the Lightweight category
2001 World Championship: 1st in the Lightweight category
2003 World Championship: 1st in the Lightweight category
Mario Kindelán is Cuba’s best exponent at the present moment. He is a boxer with an extraordinary class who has not allowed the age factor to determine his career’s course.
Four years ago Mario Kindelen, then a 29-year-old lightweight world champion, who had won every major tournament in the lead up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, beat his opponent Andriy Kotelnyk of Ukraine 14-4.
He will be heavily favored to win a second gold in Athens, which according to him will be his final tournament.