Career
He defeated Venezuela"s Jorge Cardozo for the gold medal in his division at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. Balart represented Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed for the men"s 55 kg class. He defeated Turkey"s Ayhan Karakuş in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to South of Korea"s Choi Gyu-Jin, with a three-set technical score (0–1, 2–0, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.