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Ramón Gato
Personal information
Full name	Ramón Ismael Gato Moya
Born	(1973-11-16) 16 November 1973 (age 51) Camagüey, Cuba
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Volleyball information
Position	Outside hitter
Number	12
National team
1994–2001  Cuba
Honours Men's volleyball Representing  Cuba World Championship 1998 Japan Team World League 1998 Milan 1997 Moscow World Grand Champions Cup 2001 Japan Team 1997 Japan Pan American Games 1995 Mar del Plata Team Central American and Caribbean Games 1998 Maracaibo Team

Ramón Gato (born (1973-11-16)16 November 1973) is a Cuban former volleyball player who played for the Cuban men's national volleyball team. Gato competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, finishing seventh. He won bronze medals with the Cuban team at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata and the 1998 FIVB World Championship in Japan.

2001 Defection

In 2001, Gato was one of six players on the Cuban men's national volleyball team to leave a hotel they stayed at in Flanders for a tournament, and from there rode a train to Italy for political asylum. The other players were Leonel Marshall, Jorge Luis Hernández, Ihosvany Hernández, Ángel Dennis, and Yasser Romero. Once they were granted asylum in Italy, this group was referred to as "the defectors".

See also

• Cuba at the 2000 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Cuban volleyball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
2. "Ramón Gato". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
3. ^ "The Defectors a Decade Later". Volleywood.net. 30 December 2011. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2023.

External links

• Ramón Gato at the European Volleyball Confederation
• Ramón Gato at WorldofVolley
• Ramón Gato at Lega Pallavolo Serie A (in Italian)
• Ramón Gato at Olympedia
• Volleybox.net profile
• Profile at Sports-reference.com (archived)

v t e Cuba men's volleyball squad – 2000 Summer Olympics – 7th place
1 Marshall 2 Vives 5 Argilagos 6 Ruiz 7 Dennis 8 Pimienta 9 Diago 11 O. Hernández 12 Gato 13 Roca 14 I. Hernández 16 García Coach: Díaz

• 1973 births
• Living people
• Cuban men's volleyball players
• Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Olympic volleyball players for Cuba
• Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
• Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
• Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
• 20th-century Cuban people
• Sportspeople from Camagüey
• Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
• Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in volleyball