Ionuţ Gheorghe

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of Romania Romania
Men’s Boxing
Olympic Games
Bronze 2004 Athens Light Welterweight
European Amateur Championships
Bronze 2006 Plovdiv Light Welterweight
EU Amateur Championships
Silver 2007 Dublin Light Welterweight

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

[edit] Career

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native European country. There 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 20ß07 World Championships he was upset by Iranian Morteza Sepahvand‎ but he qualified for the Olympics at the first qualifier.

[edit] Olympic results

  • Defeated Faisal Karim (Pakistan) 26-11
  • Defeated Mustafa Karagollu (Turkey) 28-19
  • Defeated Michele Di Rocco (Italy) 29-18
  • Lost to Manus Boonjumnong (Thailand) 9-30

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