Carmelo Ambrosio ROBLEDO

As a child Carmelo Robledo earned money as a newsboy on the corner of Cordova and Rodríguez Peña de Buenos Aires. He was discovered as a boxer in the Abasto neighbourhood, where a couple of well-known boxers had their roots. In 1928, Robledo was just 15-years-old and the youngest member of the Argentine delegation. This made him an Olympic veteran when he took part in Los Angeles, although he just turned 20 a few weeks before the Games. Along with other contemporary Argentine sports figures in 1950 Robledo was cast in the comedy film "Campeón a la fuerza" (Champion of Power). He worked as a clerk from Buenos Aires, but little is known about his later life. Some sources indicate that he died around 1981, while others give a date in the early 1960s.

There is an anecdote about Robledo that, at the moment when [Juan Carlos Zabala] (/athletes/64468) crossed the finish line to win the marathon, Robledo, in his exuberance, threw a pennant with an iron shaft at Zabala, which hit him on the head, and knocked him to the floor, although this was initially attributed to Zabala’s weariness.