Gustavo Balart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gustavo Balart

Olympic wrestler

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1987

Place of Birth: Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba

Profession: amateur wrestler

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Gustavo Eddy Balart Marin (born February 10, 1987 in Santiago de Cuba) is an amateur Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler and MMA fighter, who competes in the men's featherweight category.
He defeated Venezuela's Jorge Cardozo for the gold medal in his division at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.Balart represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's 55 kg class.
He defeated Turkey's Ayhan Karakus in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing the quarterfinal match to South Korea's Choi Gyu-Jin, with a three-set technical score (0–1, 2–0, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.