Ramón Gato
Appearance
Ramón Gato | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Ramón Ismael Gato Moya | ||
Born | Camagüey, Cuba | 16 November 1973||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||
Volleyball information | |||
Position | Outside hitter | ||
Number | 12 | ||
National team | |||
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Ramón Gato (born volleyball player who played for the Cuban men's national volleyball team. Gato competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, finishing seventh.[1] He won bronze medals with the Cuban team at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata and the 1998 FIVB World Championship in Japan.[2]
16 November 1973) is a Cuban former2001 Defection
[edit]In 2001, Gato was one of six players on the Cuban men's national volleyball team to leave a hotel they stayed at in Flanders for a tournament, and from there rode a train to Italy for political asylum.[3] The other players were Leonel Marshall, Jorge Luis Hernández, Ihosvany Hernández, Ángel Dennis, and Yasser Romero.[3] Once they were granted asylum in Italy, this group was referred to as "the defectors".[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Cuban volleyball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ "Ramón Gato". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ^ a b c "The Defectors A Decade Later". Volleywood.net. 30 December 2011. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
External links
[edit]- Ramón Gato at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Ramón Gato at WorldofVolley
- Ramón Gato at Lega Pallavolo Serie A (in Italian)
- Ramón Gato at Olympedia
- Volleybox.net Profile
- Profile at Sports-reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Cuban men's volleyball players
- Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic volleyball players for Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Cuban people
- Sportspeople from Camagüey
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in volleyball