King Hector in the Hall of Famefama

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Translated from the original in spanish

King Hector in the Hall of fame

El rey Héctor en el Hall de la fama

Martín Torres Peguero1, Elizardo Ríos Morales1, Eduardo de Jesús de la Maza Sánchez1

1Universidad de Pinar del Río "Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca", Pinar del Río, Cuba. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Received: July 11th, 2018. Accepted: January 11th, 2019.

The sports work deals with the sporting career fight is and results of the latter, glory of sport considered in Pinar del Rio and Cuba. among the oldest On May 14, 1968, in the town of Taco sports, as Taco, in the municipality of San its origin is Cristóbal (formerly belonging to the related to province of Pinar del Río), Héctor Milián the Pérez, the 20th century fighter from Pinar del Río, Cuba, was born. His walk appearance of man on earth. It still in the sport begins in this locality, in a remains the preference of many young special area, where he practices people from different latitudes thanks athletics, in the specialty of throwing. to the changes it has undergone through the socioeconomic formations His love for combat sports is related to that humanity has known. his uncle Ángel Milián, an outstanding Cuba, since the Revolutionary triumph former boxer from Pinar del Río, who of 1959, has stood out internationally always wanted his nephew to be linked in the different competitions of this to his sport. But one day, being in the sport, obtaining relevant successes area of pitching, they were looking for and counting in these moments with talents for the fight and when they saw several Central American, Pan him they noticed his strength and American, World and Olympic stature; in this way he arrives at champions. Ormani Arenado Llonch Sports Initiation School (EIDE) of his native The province of Pinar del Río has had province, under the tutelage of his much to do in obtaining these coaches Fernando Landa and Lorenzo achievements, contributing fighters of Echevarría. extraordinary quality as they are: Alejandro Puerto, Lázaro Reinoso, His successes begin early; in 1983 he Wilfredo García, Yoel Romero, Mario participated in the Inter EIDE Games Olivera, Mijaín López, Luis Méndez, held in Holguín, in the category 15-17 Yasmany Lugo, Liván López and Héctor years old, where he won four fights and Milián, among others. Precisely, this

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lost one, with which he won the silver manifested on one occasion: "Milián medal in the 90 kg division. began with us at the beginning of 1987 and he was a boy with great aptitudes, In 1984, being a schoolboy, he but he needed an intense work of participates in the 90 kg division in the learning that polished him in the first category held in Matanzas, technical order. In this sport, strength achieving two victories and two must be combined with intelligence...". defeats, and in the Team Tournament, Redpinar, (2016). held in the province of Granma, where he obtains five victories and one That same year he participated in the defeat, placing his team in fifth place. Pan American Games in Indianapolis, That same year, in the Inter EIDE where he defeated U.S. favorite Dennis Games developed in Pinar del Río the Koslowski in the final. take off of his great successes begins, obtaining the gold medal in the division The 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul of 90 kg of the category 15-17 years, could have been his first participation with four successes and two failures. in such an event, but it was limited by Cuba's non-participation for a just He begins the year 1985 participating cause. in the first category in Camagüey, where with five successes and two lost At the Pan American Games in Havana fights he obtains the fifth place in the in 1991, he defeated James Johnson in division of 90 kg. In July, in the the discussion of the top 100 kilogram province of Holguín, he won the gold award. medal in the 87 kg division in the School Games in the 15-17 age The Olympic Games of Barcelona category and closed the year in (1992), in which he was the standard- October with the gold medal in the bearer of the Cuban delegation, Youth Championship held in Villa Clara, constituted his consecration as an with six victories without the shadow of athlete. In this event, he defeated in failures. Accredited by these his first fight, with remarkable successes, he went on to the Superior technical quality, the 1990 world title School of Athletic Improvement holder, Serguei Demyashkevich 1-0, (ESPA), with coaches Silvio Michel and from the Commonwealth of Alejo Morales. Independent States (the name under which the former Soviet republics He dispute the first category in the Isle competed), and then the Senegalese of Youth, in 1986, in the division of 90 Alioune Diouf, for disqualification. In kg with Guillermo Cruz Vasquez, from the quarter-finals he defeated Pinar del Río too, with whom he loses Bulgarian Atanas Komtshev 8-2, while and is proclaimed national runner-up. in the semi-finals he defeated In the youth event held in Camagüey, Germany's Andreas Steinbach 10- he won gold in the 100 kg division with 4. Again in the final against the seven victories. With these records he American Dennis Koslowski, he was participates in the World Youth outperformed by him 2-1 in additional Championship of Greek Wrestling, time, proclaiming Olympic Champion. celebrated in Germany in 1986, being titled in the division of the 90 At this stage he is called "El Rey kilograms. Héctor" among his colleagues and admirers, because he specialized in In 1987 he entered the Cuban national performing suplés and unbalances in preselection, under the direction of the four points, his favorite techniques, experienced coach Pedro Val, who with which he was unbeatable between

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1990 and 1992 in the 100 kg. "He, points, but he got out of the medal however, like every great champion, dispute when he fell in his next bout to shows all the modesty that Belarusian Dmitri Debelka 4-0. characterizes him and says that he Although he beat Georgi Solddze 5-3 in does not consider himself a hero, but a the play-offs, he could not continue to man of the people whom he always advance, as Debelka was also defeated represented with honor and dignity". and could not drag him in the Morales, (2012). organization chart, being finally in fifth place. Torres, Ríos and Pérez, (2018). After the Barcelona Olympics his knees started to give him a lot of problems In general, the main competitive and he had to have surgery. From that results achieved by the stellar moment on, he found it necessary to athlete are summarized in the improve other combat techniques, following: because it was difficult for him to execute the projections with Arqueo  Olympic Games: Gold in (Suplés) in order to project his Barcelona, 1992; fifth in Atlanta adversaries. in 1996 and Sydney, 2000.  World Championships: Gold in During the 1993-1996 Olympic cycle, Germany (Youth), 1986; Gold things didn't go very well for him, due in Varna, 1991; Silver in to serious injuries and difficulties in Tampere, 1994, Prague, 1995, staying in the 100 kilogram division. Athens, 1999 and Bronze in For this reason, his participation in the Poland, 1997. 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was  Pan American Games: Gold in pending a decision by the International Indianapolis, 1987; Havana, Federation, because a sprain in his 1991; Mar del Plata, 1995 and right knee did not allow him to Winnipeg, 1999. participate in the continental Olympic  Central American and qualifying round held in Cali, Colombia. Caribbean Games: Gold in Ponce, 1993 and Maracaibo, "At the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996 1998. he came very weak, because in a very  National Championships: Gold short time he had to lose just over in the editions from 1987 to fifty-seven pounds of weight. In the 2000, except 1992, when this previous World Championships of that event was not held. Olympic cycle, in 1994 and 1995, Milián had competed in the 130 Other recognitions received kilograms, but in Atlanta he competed include the following: in the 100 kilograms, so he lacked strength" García (2013). There he won  He was elected the best athlete 12-0 against Colbie Bell (CAN) and 3-0 of the year in Cuba in 1991 and against Guiseppe Giunta (ITA), but lost 1992. 2-0 to Andrezj Wronski (POL) and 1-0  He had the honor of being the to Teymuraz Edisherashvili (RUS), standard-bearer of the Cuban finishing in fifth place. delegation in Barcelona, 1992.  He was elected the best His third Olympic Games were in gladiator in the world in 1991, Sydney in 2000, when he was thirty- by the International Fighting two years old. "He won his first two Federation. bouts against Hallik Helger of Estonia  He became the First Greco- 6-0 and Zhao Haillin of China 4-0, in Roman Olympic Wrestling both cases without receiving technical

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Champion of a Third World the province of Matanzas in country. 2013.  Selected by the people among  He is currently the President of the 100 best Cuban athletes of the Athletes Attention the 20th century. Commission of the Beach  Selected the best Cuban Capital Municipality. wrestler of the 20th century.  He was exalted to the Hall of The historical references that are Fame of the International exposed in this work on the wrestler Wrestling Federation in 2016. Hector Milián Perez Pinar del Río  His retirement as an active contribute to deepen the knowledge of athlete took place within the the personalities that have given glory framework of the International to this territory and in particular in the Tournament "Gramma", held in sport of keys and grabs in Pinar del Río.

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