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Full name
  
Ionut Gheorghe

Sport
  
Boxing

Role
  
Boxer

Weight
  
64 kg

Rated at
  
Light welterweight

Nationality
  
Romania

Name
  
Ionut Gheorghe

Height
  
1.73 m

Martial art
  
Boxing

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Born
  
February 29, 1984 (age 40) (
1984-02-29
)
Constanta

Olympic medals
  
Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Light welterweight

People also search for
  
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Ionut gheorghe


Ionuţ Gheorghe (born 29 February 1984 in Constanţa, Romania) is a boxer from Romania.

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Career

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

  • 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

    Ionuț Gheorghe Wikipedia