Floreal García
{{short description|Uruguayan boxer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox boxer
|name = Floreal García
|birth_name = Gualberto Floreal García
|birth_date = {{birth date|1943|05|24|df=y}}
|birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay
|death_date = {{death date and age|1974|12|20|1943|05|24|df=y}}
|death_place = Soca, Uruguay
|spouse = Mirtha Hernández{{Cite web|url=https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/floreal-garcia-el-boxeador-tupamaro-2020511174836|title=Floreal García, el boxeador tupamaro|work=El Observador|date=12 May 2020|access-date=12 October 2024|language=Spanish}}
|nationality = {{URU}}
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's amateur boxing}}
{{MedalCountry|{{URU}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}}
{{MedalGold|1963 São Paulo|Flyweight}}
}}
Gualberto Floreal García (24 May 1943{{Cite web|url=http://www.chasque.net/vecinet/noti826-5.htm|title=Las vidas de un luchador|work=Periscopio|date=20 May 2006|access-date=12 October 2024|language=Spanish|first=Nelson|last=Lista|via=Chasque}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/el-boxeador-tupamaro-2013524000|title=El boxeador tupamaro|work=El Observador|first=Pablo|last=Benítez|date=24 May 2013|access-date=12 October 2024|language=Spanish}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.libertaddigital.com/deportes/boxeo/2018-12-20/floreal-garcia-el-campeon-de-boxeo-asesinado-durante-la-dictadura-uruguaya-1276630154/amp.html|title=Floreal García, el campeón de boxeo asesinado durante la dictadura uruguaya|work=Libertad Digital|date=20 December 2018|access-date=12 October 2024|first=Tolo|last=Teal|language=Spanish}} – 20 December 1974) was a Uruguayan boxer.
Life and career
García was born in Montevideo.{{Cite web|url=https://sitiosdememoria.uy/garcia-larrosa-floreal-gualberto|title=García Larrosa, Floreal Gualberto|work=Sitios De Memoria Uruguay|access-date=12 October 2024|language=Spanish}}
García competed at the 1963 Pan American Games, winning the gold medal in the flyweight event.{{Citation|title=1963 Pan American Games: Boxing Results|work=Pan American Games}}
García died on 20 December 1974 in Soca,{{Citation|title=Argentina’s Newsletter on Human Rights: Volume 1, Issues 3-4|date=1977|publisher=Solidarity Committee with the Argentine People}} at the age of 31.
References
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{{Footer Pan American Champions Flyweight}}
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Category:Boxers from Montevideo
Category:Uruguayan male boxers
Category:Boxers at the 1963 Pan American Games
Category:Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games medalists in boxing
Category:Pan American Games gold medalists for Uruguay
Category:20th-century Uruguayan sportsmen
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