Ionuț Gheorghe
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Full name | Ionuţ Gheorghe | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Constanţa | February 29, 1984||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Light Welterweight | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ionuţ Gheorghe (born 29 February 1984 in Constanţa, Romania)[1] is a boxer from Romania.
Career
[edit]He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in first place at the 3rd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden. In Athens, Greece he won a bronze medal, having been stopped in the semifinals of the Light welterweight (64 kg) division by eventual winner Manus Boonjumnong.
Gheorghe won another bronze medal in the same division two years later, at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Plovdiv where he lost to local Boris Georgiev.
At the 2007 World Championships he was upset by Iranian Morteza Sepahvand but he qualified for the Olympics at the first qualifier.
Olympic results 2004
[edit]- Defeated Faisal Karim (Pakistan) 26-11
- Defeated Mustafa Karagöllü (Turkey) 28-19
- Defeated Michele Di Rocco (Italy) 29-18
- Lost to Manus Boonjumnong (Thailand) 9-30
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ionuţ Gheorghe". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2011-09-19.
Categories:
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Light-welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Romania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Romanian male boxers
- Sportspeople from Constanța
- 21st-century Romanian sportsmen
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs
- Romanian boxing biography stubs