Harlan Marbley
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's boxing | ||
Representing the United States | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1968 Mexico City | Light Flyweight | |
Pan American Games | ||
1967 Winnipeg | Flyweight |
Harlan Joseph Marbley (October 11, 1943 in White Oak, Maryland – May 13, 2008) was a flyweight boxer from the United States who represented his native country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. There he won the bronze medal, after a loss in the semifinals of the men's light flyweight division against eventual gold medalist Francisco Rodríguez from Venezuela.
Amateur career
[edit]Marbley won the 1968 National AAU Light flyweight championship.
1968 Olympic results
[edit]Below is the record of Harlan Marbley, an American light flyweight boxer who competed at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics:
- Round of 32: bye
- Round of 16 Defeated Fuat Temel (Turkey) on points, 5-0
- Quarterfinal: Defeated Gabriel Ogun (Nigeria) on points, 5-0
- Semifinal: Lost to Francisco Rodríguez (Venezuela) on points, 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal)
References
[edit]- Harlan Marbley at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived February 8, 2007)
- Harlan Marbley at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1943 births
- 2008 deaths
- Sportspeople from Montgomery County, Maryland
- People from White Oak, Maryland
- Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Boxers from Maryland
- Flyweight boxers
- Winners of the United States Championship for amateur boxers
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in boxing
- American male boxers
- Boxers at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States in boxing
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American boxing Olympic medalist stubs