Cuba’s Teofilo Stevenson, three-time Olympic boxing champion, dies
A photograph of Cuban boxing champion Teofilo Stevenson from the 1970s. Stevenson, regarded by many as the most accomplished amateur boxer in history, won three successive gold medals in the Summer Olympics (1972, 1976 and 1980) and three world amateur titles (1974, 1978 and 1986). (AFP/Getty Images)
Cuban champion Teofilo Stevenson, left, battles Soviet Pyotr Zayev in the Moscow Olympics in 1980. He was forced to pass up a shot at a fourth Olympic medal when Cuba skipped both the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and the 1988 Games in Sydney. (AFP/Getty Images)
Gold medalist Teofilo Stevenson, center, silver medalist Pyotr Zayev, left, and bronze medalist Jurgen Fanghanel acknowledge the crowd from the podium at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. (AFP/Getty Images)
As Cuban President Fidel Castro looks on, three-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Teofilo Stevenson, left, greets African National Congress President Nelson Mandela, center, in Havana in 1991. (Rafael Perez, AFP/Getty Images)
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Former Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson, right, greets former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana in 1996. (AFP/Getty Images)
In this photo from February of this year, three-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Teofilo Stevenson poses during an interview at his home in Havana. Stevenson passed up millions by not leaving Communist-run Cuba to turn pro, but expressed no remorse. “I prefer the affection of 8 million Cubans,” he once said. (Javier Galeano / Associated Press)
