Playa Girón National Championships (+91 kg), Ciego de Avila, Cuba, January 1994: 1/8: Defeated Isbey Rodriguez (Cuba) RSC 2 1/4: Defeated Juan Ortega (Cuba) RET 2 1/2: Defeated Luis Lazaro Ulacia (Cuba) 8–2 Finals: Not contested Leonardo Martínez Fizz (Cuba) AIBA World Championships Challenge (+91 kg), Dublin, Ireland, March 1994: Defeated Yevgeniy Belousov (Russia) by split decision, 3–2 (5 rds) XXVII Giraldo Córdova Cardín Tournament (+91 kg), Cienfuegos, Cuba, May 1994: 1/2: Defeated Raj Kumar Sangwan (India) RET 1 Finals: Defeated Luis Lazaro Ulacia (Cuba) PTS VIII World Cup (+91 kg), Bangkok, Thailand, June 1994: 1/8: Defeated Christophe Mendy (France) 24–4 (5 rds) 1/4: Defeated Mikhail Yurchenko (Kazakhstan) 18–10 (5 rds) 1/2: Defeated Svilen Rusinov (Bulgaria) 13–6 (5 rds) Finals: Defeated Oleg Maskaev (Uzbekistan) by walkover Death On July 2, 1994, Roberto Balado was driving to train at the headquarters of the Cuban team at the Holveín Quesada National School of Boxing (Escuela Nacional de Boxeo “Holveín Quesada,”) but didn't make it as he died in a crash at a train crossing in Havana. References External links Roberto Balado Partial Record (Amateur Boxing Results) Amateur career of Roberto Balado (in Spanish) compiled by Pedro Cabrera Isidrón of the Cuban Olympics Committee. Last updated: September 17, 2008 1969 births 1994 deaths Olympic boxers of Cuba Super-heavyweight boxers Olympic gold medalists for Cuba Boxers at the 1991 Pan American Games Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Road incident deaths in Cuba Olympic medalists in boxing Cuban male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in boxing Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba Competitors at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games People from Matanzas Province 20th-century Cuban people