Ruperto Herrera is a former Cuban basketball player who won the bronze medal with his country's national team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
He was eight-time champion of the Cuban League (1965-1969, 1971, 1973 and 1975) as a guard for Industriales, the club where he played from 1965 to 1982.
He participated with the national team at the Olympic Games in Mexico 1968, Munich 1972, Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980, winning a bronze medal in Munich.
He won a bronze medal and two fourth-place finishes at the Pan American Games and competed in two World Cups.
He is the secretary of the Cuban Olympic Committee, President of the Cuban Basketball Society and has been elected as a member of ODECABE, the Central American and Caribbean Sports Organization.
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