Juan Roca Brunet: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Cuban basketball player (1950–2022)}}

{{family name hatnote|Roca|Brunet|lang=Spanish}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{MedalCompetition|[[Central American and Caribbean Games]]}}

{{MedalSilver| [[Basketball at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games|1974 Santo Domingo]] | Team Competition}}

{{MedalGold| [[Basketball at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games|1978 Medellín]] | Team Competition}}

'''Juan Roca Brunet''' (October 27, 1950 – July 9, 2022) was a [[basketball]] player from Cuba who won the [[bronze]] medal with the men's [[Cuba national basketball team|national team]] at the [[Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Summer Olympics]] in [[Munich]], [[West Germany]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Former basketball player Juan Roca, Olympic bronze medalist at Munich-72, passes away |url=https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/deportes/293163-former-basketball-player-juan-roca-olympic-bronze-medalist-at-munich-72-passes-away |access-date=2022-07-11 |work=[[Radio Havana Cuba]] |language=en}}</ref> Roca was also a member of the Cuban team in the 1976 Montréal Olympics, which finished in seventh place.

Roca also found success outside of the Olympics, competing in the 1974 and 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games, where he won gold and silver, respectively.<ref>{{cite web

| title = Juan Roca Runet

| url = https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/6976

| website = Olympedia

| access-date = |date= 28 June 2024}} </ref>

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{{Cuba Men Basketball Squad 1976 Summer Olympics}}

[[Category:2022 deaths]]

[[Category:Cuban men's basketball players]]

[[Category:1974 FIBA World Championship players]]

[[Category:Olympic basketball players for Cuba]]

[[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba]]

[[Category:Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics]]

[[Category:Pan American Games medalists in basketball]]

[[Category:Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games]]