About Teófilo Stevenson
Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence was a Cuban amateur boxer who competed from 1966 to 1986. Chervonenko, a retired boxer himself, sent by the Soviet Union, who had created Cuba's Escuela de Boxeo (Boxing school) in a derelict old gym in Havana, began to champion Stevenson's progress. After a close first round, Stevenson lost the second, but a ferocious display in the third round knocked Bobick to the canvas three times and the contest was stopped. The Cuban boxing team won three gold medals, their first in Olympic boxing history, as well as one silver and one bronze. Stevenson won the Val Barker Trophy (1972) as well was honored with the Olympic Order (1987) and is one of only three boxers to win three Olympic gold medals – alongside the Hungarian László Papp and the fellow Cuban Félix Savón.
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