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For 64 years, the victory remained the last Argentinian gold medal in an individual competition, until the victory of Sebastián Crismanich in taekwondo in the 2012 games.
Cabrera's marathon win was not Argentina's last individual Olympic gold until 2012. Two other Argentines, boxers Pascual Pérez and Rafael Iglesias, also won individual gold medals later at the 1948 London Games.
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This sentence confuses Cabrera's specific victory with Argentina's broader drought in individual Olympic golds after the 1948 Games.
Here is the timeline:
- Delfo Cabrera won the men's marathon at the 1948 London Olympics on 7 August 1948.
- The 1948 Olympic boxing competition ran from 7 to 13 August 1948.
- In that same boxing program, Pascual Pérez won gold in men's flyweight and Rafael Iglesias won gold in men's heavyweight for Argentina.
So Cabrera's marathon victory was not the last Argentine individual gold medal victory for 64 years, because two more Argentine individual golds were won later in the same Olympics.
The Argentine Olympic Committee itself describes London 1948 as a Games where Argentina won three golds: Delfo Cabrera in the marathon, plus boxers Rafael Iglesias and Pascual Pérez. In a separate COA article about Sebastián Crismanich's 2012 gold, the COA says the previous individual golds had been Pascual Pérez, Rafael Iglesias, and Delfo Cabrera — not Cabrera alone.
A more accurate wording would be that Argentina did not win another individual Olympic gold after the 1948 London Games until Sebastián Crismanich in 2012.
3 sources
- Olympedia – Marathon, Men (1948 Summer Olympics)
Marathon, Men — Date: 7 August 1948 — 15:00. Delfo Cabrera won gold for Argentina.
- Olympedia – Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Dates 7 - 13 August 1948 ... Medals: Flyweight, Men — Pascual Pérez (ARG) gold; Heavyweight, Men — Rafael Iglesias (ARG) gold.
- Comité Olímpico Argentino – Le dedico la medalla de oro "a todos los argentinos"
Al informar sobre Sebastián Crismanich en 2012, the COA says the previous individual gold winners had been boxers Pascual Pérez and Rafael Iglesias, and marathoner Delfo Cabrera.