Bárbaro Morgan

Bárbaro Morgan

Morgan (left) at the 1980 Olympics
Personal information
Born	4 December 1951 (age 64) Florida, Cuba
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle wrestling, sambo
Medal record Representing  Cuba Freestyle wrestling World Championships 1978 Mexico City -100 kg Pan American Games 1971 Cali -90 kg 1975 Mexico City -90 kg 1979 San Juan -100 kg Sambo 1983 Caracas +100 kg

Bárbaro Julio Morgan Soroa (born 4 December 1951) is a retired heavyweight freestyle wrestler from Cuba who won a bronze medal at the 1978 World Championships. He competed in the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics and placed fifth-eighth.^[1] Morgan won three silver medals in freestyle wrestling at the Pan American Games in 1971–1979 and a gold medal in sambo in 1983 – the only year when sambo tournament was held at those games.^[2]

References

1. "Bárbaro Morgan". sports-reference. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
2. Steven Olderr (2003). The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A Statistical History, 1951–1999, bilingual edition / Una Historia Estadistica, 1951–1999, edicion bilingue. McFarland. pp. 324, 327, 329. ISBN 978-0-7864-4336-9.