Cuban volleyball player
Ramón Gato |
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Full name | Ramón Ismael Gato Moya |
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Born | (1973-11-16) 16 November 1973 (age 50) Camagüey, Cuba |
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Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
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Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
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Position | Outside hitter |
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Number | 12 |
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Ramón Gato (born (1973-11-16)16 November 1973) is a Cuban former 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]
2001 Defection
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]
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