The Cuban sports movement laments the death of 48 kg Olympic champion in Montreal-1976, Jorge Hernandez, expressed today the president of the National Institute of Sports Physical Education and Recreation (INDER), Osvaldo Vento.

Havana, Cuba.- On the social network Twitter, Vento expressed that with pain Cuban sports and especially, boxing, are mourning the death of one of its essential figures.

The message sends "to his family and friends the solidarity message of those who applaud his triumphs," wrote the president of INDER.

Jorgito, as he is called in the sports field, was titled in the 48 kg division in the first World Boxing Championship in Havana 1974, as well as in the Pan American Sports Games of Mexico-19975 and the Central American and Caribbean Games held in Santo Domingo-1974.

After hearing the news, the president of the Cuban Federation of Boxing, Alberto Puig de la Barca, also conveyed his condolences over the physical disappearance at age 65 of the former boxer from this capital. (PL)